The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens Reviews

Nice zoo, great place for the family... You better bring your tenis shoes ,because you walk a lot

Visited the zoo on a Sunday and it was a nice time. Everyone was safe, and we got to see about half of the animals there. Everything that is indoors is closed off. There is still one main area where you can purchase food and eat outside (offering hamburgers, veggie burgers, chicken sandwiches, all come with fries.)
There were a few snack shacks open as well that sell refreshments, churros, and icees, which was nice on a hot day.

Waste of Money!
Don't spend a dime on this experience..
Not worth it!
Light Show is not what you expect it to be. Go around aton and you will see better light decorations ,. In addition there was no light show, but a light decoration and lots of vendors to make money on you!

A very emotional place to enjoy with the whole family.

Really big 133 acres. Everything clean.
Big play ground for kids(2+. You can bring food and 10$ vip parking or else free

Hello, I am from the UAE, Dubai, and I am a fan of zoos and I was longing to visit the Los Angeles Zoo, but the surprise was the park without animals !!!
The scarcity of the healthiest was free from basic animals such as the lion and predatory animal species and many animals we did not see in the park, the price of the tickets is reasonable and the area of the garden is good and the addition is very good, attention must be paid to increasing the number of animals and the park will be one of the most beautiful gardens and thank you 25/8/2017

Clean environment, friendly staff, happy engaged animals, and a great physical work out if walking the entire zoo.

Great way to walk around and spend a day. Can visit almost all exhibits in a day.

Well maintained grounds and lots of wildlife to see

It was okay. I felt that the exhibits we're too spread out

A great place to connect with nature, and natural animals.

Its Huge!! It took me 5 hrs to walk all over the place!! But I love it!!

It was great , but animals seemed sad like the feel whats going on rt now with covid and all that

Disappointed with this zoo, a lot missing and to much construction and animals look miserable :(

Very nice place only the food they sell I do not like

Lacks maintenance, the guys pay from two years. 16 dollars the minors 21 the majors. You can eat inside but you can enter with food.

LA Zoo lights was great for my 3/7yr old. Beautiful atmosphere and lights.

Love the zoo, big and lots of animals... My little kiddo loves it...

There were almost no animals to see! All closed for the price!

I always love the zoo. The only complaint I have is that we had to walk up hill... it was hot and I have a bad leg. Other than that it was a cool place to take pictures of animals

so much fun. but, it s even more fun during the christmas season! my family and i went for a christmas celebration at night. unfortunately, we weren t able to see any animals, but, in my opinion, we saw something way better. we passed through a tunnel of different colored lights and then we passed an area full of trees that were like those plastic battery powered trees you d see in the lorax. they emitted so much light and a beautiful blue color. they also sold hot chocolate, and i got some. it was just about the best hot chocolate id ever tasted.

Zoo shouldn't be opened if they hardly have any animals to see. At least give half price. They should let people know what animals are available to see when you purchase the tickets. Hardly any and everything on construction. Not the greatest experience.

Had a great day with my Baby Boy and his classmates #NEWHEIGHTSCHARTERSCHOOL#

Great for kids. There's a petting zoo near the entrance.

Awesome place to have a nice walk looking at all the animals and the kids love it

I went for the Zoo Lights... It was packed but still pretty cool... Definitely something everyone should experience for the price

Free parking and up to 4 free general admission tickets through the LA public library with Discover & Go. Large assortment of animals, plenty of facilities, although enclosures seem a little small for some animals.

Cute Little Zoo - (But three stars because the displays aren't kid friendly and the enclosures have lots of scratched and dirty glass. For a destination city as big and as popular as Los Angeles, this zoo could do better.) I've posted one of the only displays kids can see and it's pretty hazy. (The pygmy caiman sure is cute though.)

Good place for the whole family, bring your tennis shoes.

My kids love to visit the zoo !! I recommend to be member at zoo !!

Lots of fun! Even with the pandemic and sad we couldn t see the reptiles and do the Australian walk through but overall still had a great time and the CHURROS WERE GREAT !

Wonderful place for the family. Awesome benefit.. free parking!!! Everything was will keep and all of the animals were very well kept

I use to come here with my boys when they were baby's, now there 18 and 13 and it bought back so many memories, am still sad that even though they build a bigger exhibit for the elephant he's still just stands there and bobs he's head up and down:(. They do have some really cool attraction, the lizard house very cool, the Gorillas were also really great, for the most part the animals were really active and seems as happy as they can be. Nice place to go.

When you ignore the fact that zoo is kind of jail for animals. It is a very cool place, and to see young kids exited to see huge animals for the first time is not something that you can miss.
I really feel bad for the animals, they have done nothing to be in jail, except for being beautiful and amazing, and for human to entertain. The place is clean and organized, and I felt that the people here really try to do a lot for the animals here.

We enjoyed it
I think the kids like it more than the adults. Not all the animals are visible. I think about 60% of them were available others were either hiding or no where to be found.

It was great looked like a forest and the animals are well token care of it s a great place for kids and adults or disabled people their many new things to learn about

If you have been to the Mudu Zoo, you don't have to go to LA for $21. Go to other more fun places! You know .

Fun place to spend time with family and see the animals. I recommend coming here some day

My husband and I went there on a Sunday afternoon, it was very crowded, but still very nice. Everything was in bloom. I think there are signs that say kids shouldn't be running around and screaming, but some parents ignore that and let their kids do whatever. I will be going again when the schools are in session and I can enjoy a more peaceful time.

It is a very wonderful place and especially the animals beautiful and to spend a good day with the family

LA Zoo Lights was awesome!!! So much amazing work goes into this event!!!

Very nice place to take you kids, prepare to walk and have a good time.

There is no more Rhino :( my son was so looking forward to seeing the rhinoceros but after searching and finally asking a worker they said the rhino passed away and there is no rhino exhibit. Still had a good time feeding giraffes and looking at the other animals.

Will be there tomorrow Froyozombie talking it up like Dr Doolittle

The zoo and the common areas are not very careful, there are more shops to eat than things to see and the price is not worth it because there is no great fun.

Great photo ops but the lines are way too long and we missed most of the exhibits available. Arrived at 8p it took about 40 mins to get in and the reptiles and carousel closed at 915p. Definitely did not the enjoy the police escorting us out. Bad call during these bad times. Over priced for such a short time frame.

I love this zoo new animals.were do day geat them from

Such a fun time to go with to experience! So many animals, parking is relatively easy and though there's a lot of people it's still an excellent experience!

Nice location, enclosure rather small. Not many animals to see.

Very nice way to spend evening. Super nice for young children. If you are within an hour's drive it's worth it. I did not give 5 stars only because I did not think it was as good as old Griffith Park lights they had years ago but I realize that may not be fair. On Friday's either get there super early or after 7.

Bummed, drove all the way there to find out you need reservations. Checked online for reservations, none for the year.

Its been a wonderful experience
i enjoy a lot