Zoo
Miller Park Zoo
27 locals recommend
Location
1020 S Morris Ave
Bloomington, IL
Tips from locals
Great place for kids. Nice Park and play structure. Inside the zoo there are tigers, Lions, bears, hippos, giraffes, monkeys, alligators, etc.
Bloomington’s Miller Park has had a menagerie of some sort since 1891, and this became a full-fledged zoo in 1900. In the 1990s and 2000s a host of new exhibits were added, more than doubling the zoos area. For a brief summary you’ve got indoor spaces like ZooLab, with its exotic insects, meerkats and parrots, and the historic Katthoefer Animal Building, holding snow leopards, tamarins, snakes and Sumatran tigers. Outside you’ll encounter wallabies, red pandas, Galapagos tortoises, otters, alligators, Pallas’ cats and a wealth of birds, from eagles, to hawks, greater flamingos and hooded cranes. The wider park has no shortage of facilities, especially in summer when there’s a splash pad, mini golf course and a lake with paddle boats.
Bloomington’s Miller Park has had a menagerie of some sort since 1891, and this became a full-fledged zoo in 1900. In the 1990s and 2000s a host of new exhibits were added, more than doubling the zoos area. For a brief summary you’ve got indoor spaces like ZooLab, with its exotic insects, meerkats…