Jamie Stahl

Review of Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Living in Syracuse, I love this zoo, the accessibi...

Living in Syracuse, I love this zoo, the accessibility, the size, but I feel like we have taken a turn for the worse as far as quality. I go several time a year and, My sister and I went yesterday and were just talking about how aged a lot of our animals are, how a lot of the enclosures haven t been updated in a long time. The red wolf and tiger enclosures were so over grown it was hard to find the animals, it was a warm day and the bear enclosure did not have any water running in it(let those bears cool down!). The dinosaur exhibit was cute but I didn t like the fact that several live animal displays like the bald eagles, foxes and lynx enclosures were torn down to accommodate plastic extinct animals... it s a zoo... I will still visit but I m hoping in the future we can continue to update and grow our wonderful zoo, not let it fall into a dump.