El Paso Zoo Review

Excellent highly recommended, something different if you are visiting the pass.

It was a smaller zoo but had play areas for the kids to cool down, splash pad, tree house, can take your own sack lunch and cooler. I will be taking the kids agian and the staff were super friendly.

Still a few sections under construction, but very clean, playground and water fountains for kids

I'm happy that they take good care of all the animals

Great place to take kids, purchased year pass. Well worth it!

The zoo is pretty pricey for admission, plus if you want to ride the train or carousel, it's an additional charge. I know there was an extreme amount of money spent to renovate the zoo, and dont get me wrong, it is very clean and kept up nicely but there was a scarce number of animals considering the number of exhibits. That was very disappointing. All of the gift shops and food vendors were closed and the only place to buy drinks was a vending machine.

Awesome activity can last you a full day at a good price!

Great place to take the family. It has changed a lot since I was a kid. Also, they are planning to re vamp the zoo to be more reflective of the El Paso area. The ecology will be more of a Chihuahuan desert.

Had fun at the zoo. Went during the week and had the place to ourselves. Got up close and personal with the animals.

Tickets and drinks are very expensive ... and many animals were not there. They should have made a discount

Beautiful, but a lot of the animals were unavailable and looked to be old and injured or in pain.

Smaller than expected...still a great place to bring the kids. Looking forward to the special program days. Military discount for service members and family...

Beautiful clean, affordable hotel with helpful friendly staff. We felt comfortable here, like we never left home it's actually our 3rd separate stay~cation.

Was pleasantly surprised as to how much the El Paso Zoo has grown and keeps growing with a new exhibit section opening in the near future. A full day was spent visiting each exhibit and attending educational shows. Ideal for a day out experience with family and friends.

If I only went there one time I would have gave you 5 stars. I went there second time it's a beautiful Zoo. The animals enclosures look very sad I do realize it's El Paso and it's desert but some of the enclosures are just way too small for those animals. Their tiger look anorexic, second time I went I really just wanted to cry. I won't be going back because it's definitely not worth the price to get in it's too expensive for how small it is.

A great Oasis at El Paso. They keep the animals in large enough spaces.

You know many animals that I didn't even know existed

El Paso Zoo is fun if you are a family in El Paso and the kids are tired of shopping

Bring cash for ticket purchases, most cards don't take and the ATM outside doesn't work either. Inside the park was great, the entire family enjoyed the day there.

The zoo was busy today so didn't see many animals as usual but my kids had fun .

its nice zoo i like it just have a lot of water and food for the kids because there is only a couple of places that sell food and water and they are really expensive

Great please to take the family, really great zoo, had tons of fun.

Not very many animals. The animals exhibits are tiny also. For a place as big as el paso you would think that it would be nice but not really

Great place, little bummed out there are renovations happening that cut out some exhibits but I am sure they will be fantastic when completed.

It made me something small, but it is quite entertaining, I recommend it to walk for a while, it takes about 3 or 4 hours to go through everything calmly,

I feel that they are missing more small animals, for example: the changuitos were not: / (where there are regularly several of the small ones),

Wonderful place to take kids. Follow the path and see all the animals and birds the Koi fish are just relaxing to watch and the birds are pretty cool too. The "meet the keeper" shows are fun and & interesting. They tell you more about a certain animal or bird and you get to learn more about the animals. The zoo offers a huge playground that has slides the way its made 'it makes you feel like your in a jungle' my daughter said. It also has a splash pad for kids and adults to cool down. The zoo also offers a train ride however you need to buy a ticket to ride the train which is less than $3.00. In case you brought your lunch you can use one of the several benches the zoo provides under a big the canopy to shield you from the sun. You may bring your cooler and your own lunch from your house or any outside restaurant and eat it there or you can purchase something from the zoo's restaurants. The only things not allowed in the zoo are any type of glass bottles and alcoholic beverages.

We did not finish touring it but what I saw I loved,

All the animals I saw were by themselves, there was only one wolf, one sea lion, one donkey and so on. They seemed really lonely and bored and the sea lion exhibit was really broken down like the underwater view was really rusty. I am all for protecting animals and this was not a good experience.

My little girl had a great time and loved the animals. Great experience.

Nice local attraction. Much has improved but animal favorites just weren't out this last time and the water pad wasn't working for the kids

Zoo's are animal cruelty. Let them be free. Disgusting.

It's a nice zoo, I just feel that the habits are smaller compared to other zoos. People were pretty friendly as well and it was fairly clean.

I really liked it a lot, the exhibits aren't that big, so the animals are actually very close. A good 3-4 hours walking slowly

Knocked off a star for canceling the zoo pride event! Its one of the few family events that we truly enjoy. Very sad they couldnt find a way to stay exclusive.
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Absolutely LOVE the Zoo. Lots of animals great enclosures!!
Very excepting of my service dog.
A truly joyful place.

Beautiful place to take the kids. Many new exhibitions to see.

The grounds are well kept and the staff is friendly and helpful
"meeg the keeper" should be better organized all around including the presentation
The after hours during the summer are the best but there should be more of them

New exhibits, the only this I wish could change is the military tickets it should be for kids as well that have active ID cards not just the spouse of a military personnel

My nieces, grandson and I had a wonderful time. The bird show was truly educational and enjoyable for the kids.

Went recently with work. It was ok...not much has changed. There always seems to be at least one part of the zoo closed for remodeling. The staff was nice especially in the cafe. The security there however was very rude. He was maybe in his late 40s and began barking orders at us while we were still in the parking lot not even to the entrance yet. Id course I'll be back but you guys should check your security because they're definitely not improving your zoo in any way.

We enjoyed our last visit. Lots of great changes with more to come. The lion was resting right by the window were we could take pictures. We saw the giraffes and my favorite, the zebras. We took the kids and they enjoyed it. It was Easter and they got to see the events and enjoy a great day.

Decent zoo for the area we are in. Most of the animals were hidden/sleeping. Some of the exhibits were dirty (with random trash) ESPECIALLY the sea lion one. That one was actually really really gross. The glass was disgusting to the point you couldn t even see through it :( If you look HARD ENOUGH you can see the outline of the sea lion in both photos.

Overall it s a nice way to spend 2-3 hours or your day. We went on a Saturday and I m so surprised that EVERYTHING was basically closed. No drink or food stands, and didn t really see any workers. Didn t seem like very interactive with kids or their guests.

The Zoo is getting better and better as the years go on! this is great to see for el paso. bring swim trunks!! there is a great little splach park at the zoo.

Nice little zoo, clean with a good assortment of animals.

Rough. Call it like it is. This place is small, under funded and needs a new location. Maybe some more animals would help too

It was fun but it could be better only because I'm used to LA zoo

Ones again. The animals are sleep we didn't see any of the animals.

We recently purchased the membership and the kids love being able to come whenever we want. finally went in to the water section and the kids loved bowling able to touch and play with different things, they even experienced a rainfall.

Great place to take your family and spend quality time.

Going early is awsome. You get to see some animals do things that they wouldn't normally do when its really hot out side.

Favorite part is the treehouse playground and splash pad. Good amount of shade and nice exhibits

Not all the exhibits were open, but very clean and fun activities.

Took over the care of injured baby bird of prey. Thank you to our zoo for caring!

It takes you on a journey of of other places in the world

Great setup as far as exhibits and layout! Far exceeded what I was expecting. Alas, usually just one animal per exhibit. Went on a Sunday morning before 1200, not too busy.

Great animal exhibits with new animals to see and fun things to do there. Always new things to do and new exhibits. Always changing for the better. Staff is friendly and informative. This is a Great place to go spend a day.

Nice little walk, I have the yearly pass so I go pretty often just to walk.

Currently under construction. Most of the animals are not in display. Good place to visit, but really needs work.