Website: Zoo AmericaSeason: Year round
Cost: $9 for 9 and up, $7.50 for kids 2-8 and adults over 55, children under 2 free. Included in full-day admission to Hersheypark and free to Hersheypark season pass holders.
Expected length of visit: A couple of hours max, IMO
Recommended for ages: all ages
We've visited Zoo America individually and as part of Hersheypark experience. It's a nice little zoo but due to the cost and effort involved in getting to Zoo America(it's at least 45 minutes away), I prefer our local animal park, Lake Tobias, if we're going to do the animal thing.
When we went to the zoo and paid a separate admission, we used a coupon for the Kids Book and save a couple of dollars. It was still more expensive than Lake Tobias and frankly Zoo America isn't any more exciting than Lake Tobias. We're just spoiled since Lake Tobias is practically in our back yard.
They have a nice variety of animals at Zoo America but nothing terribly exotic. No elephants or giraffes - all of the animals are native to North America. They have a neat swimming pool for the bears and you can feed the ducks, which my older son enjoys. It's not that big of a place. You can spend a bit of time visiting the indoor animal habitats and then walk around the rest of the zoo and probably see it all in 1-2 hours.
There is a snack bar in the zoo but I've never been there when it was actually open. There are some vending machines and a gift shop too.
Zoo America is free if you have a season pass to Hersheypark which is a nice perk, especially if you live in the area and want something lite to do every now and then. It's nice that it's open all year round since personally I find it difficult to find things to do in the colder months in this area. I only recently found out it was open year-round. I wish I had known that sooner!
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