Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minnesota 🇺🇸

The Minnesota Zoo (formerly the Minnesota Zoological Garden), is an AZA-accredited zoo in Apple Valley, Minnesota. When it opened on May 22, 1978 it was fairly revolutionary in its exhibit design. The zoo, built in a suburbanizing rural area, had more space to house exhibits and was one of the first zoos to organize its animals by their living environment as opposed to their species.
Exhibits are arrayed in six themed areas, including three themed walking trails ranging from one to two miles in length:
- Medtronic Minnesota Trail, featuring animals native to Minnesota;
- Northern Trail, featuring animals of the north (above the 45th parallel north);
- Tropics Trail, an indoor walking trail featuring animals from the tropics;
- Discovery Bay, an activity area themed around marine wildlife;
- Russia's Grizzly Coast, a part-indoor, part-outdoor new multi-million exhibit featuring animals from Russia's Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula;
- Wells Fargo Family Farm, themed around farm animals.
The Minnesota Zoo is a state agency. This differs from other zoos in Minnesota and most others in the United States, which are run by municipalities or private organizations.

💡 The Minnesota Zoo facts
✔ Located on 485 acres in Apple Valley, Minnesota
✔ Home to more than 4,500 animals and 505 species in award-winning exhibits
✔ Annual attendance of nearly 1.3 million
✔ 193,098 Zoo members and donors
✔ Over 1,168 volunteers contributing more than 105,053 hours annually more than 3 million hours of donated time
✔ The state’s largest environmental learning center, with more than 360,000 participants in educational programming last year; including, 83,000 school program participants
✔ There is an outdoor amphitheater that is used for bird shows during summer zoo hours. After hours, the amphitheater is used for a popular "Music in the Zoo" series

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