Search This Blog

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Santa Ana Zoo, Santa Ana

Santa Ana Zoo
1801 East Chestnut Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-836-4000
http://santaanazoo.org/

Memorial Day-Labor Day
Mon-Fri: 10a-4p (grounds close at 5p)
Sat-Sun: 10a-5p (grounds close at 6p)

Labor Day-Memorial Day
Daily: 10a-4p (grounds close at 5p)
Closed Christmas Day & New Years Day.


General Admission
Adults (age 13+): $8
Seniors (60+), Children (3-12): $5
Members, Children (under age 3): FREE
Note that a $3.54 transaction fee will be added to all credit/debit transactions at the Ticket Booth.

Mon-Fri after 2pm (excluding holidays)
Adults (age 13+): $4
Seniors (60+), Children (3-12): $2.50

Featured Attractions at the Zoo

A new, multi-species exhibit, showcasing Anteaters, Guanacos and Rheas. This exhibit celebrates and preserves one of the most highly endangered habitats in the world, the Pampas Grasslands of South America. Visitors are immersed into the environment and surrounded by native plants, grasses and water.

At the Crean Family Farm, you can peek into the barn doors and experience a farmyard adventure. Learn about life on an Orange County farm while you touch and feed the animals. Learn what it's like to be a zookeeeper by watching them care for the animals, and learn about the roles rare breeds of animals play on a farm.

The Zoofari Express has been prowling through Zoo grounds since the spring of 1999. While the train is in excellent condition after its 43-year run at Santa’s Village (in Skyforest, CA) and 6-year run at the Santa Ana Zoo, it now benefits from a more environmentally-friendly electric locomotive.
The train travels throughout the Crean Family Farm and up into the northern part of the Zoo for a 6 ½ minute ride, pulling six cars: a tender, four passenger cars and a caboose. Admission: $3; Weekdays: 11a-2p, Weekends: 11a-4p

On the Conservation Carrousel, children learn about the value of environmental conservation through the preservation of endangered animals, while having fun on a classic carrousel. Each rider receives an educational collector’s card describing an animal and why it is endangered. Admission: $3; Weekdays: 11a-2p, Weekends: 11a-4p

In the Colors of the Amazon walk-through aviary Zoo visitors can mingle with a variety of exotic birds, who, free from cages and other typical enclosures, roam about as if they were still in their native South America. Encompassing an expansive 9,000 square feet, the aviary features such colorful birds as the white-bellied caique, scarlet ibis, emerald toucanet, blue-crowned mot-mot and many more.

Amazon’s Edge is the premier exhibit at the Santa Ana Zoo, featuring a waterfall, lake, and lush island setting. A wooden deck provides for perfect viewing of this slice of Amazonia. Amazon’s Edge opened to guests on September 1, 1993 and is home to howler monkeys, mallards, black-necked swans and crested screamers.

The Bauer Jaguar Exploration Outpost, which opened in August of 2006, is an intricately detailed room full of hands-on experiments and learning, modeled after a real exploration outpost in the Amazon Basin.

Contact the Zoo for latest information.

No comments:

Post a Comment