Austin Zoo Limited Reopening
*The event has already taken place on this date: Mon, 05/18/2020
Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.
Our animals and staff miss you and can’t wait for your next visit!
As always, our utmost priority is the health and safety of our guests, our staff and our animals. In order to ensure your visit is safe, enjoyable and that social distancing guidelines are met or exceeded, we have made a few adjustments to your Zoo experience. Please note, these precautions are TEMPORARY. As guidelines are updated and relaxed, we will also edit our visitor guidelines.
– Please, if you are not feeling well or have a temperature over 100.4, refrain from
visiting and come another day.
– Masks are required. If you are not wearing a mask, or face covering, you will not
be allowed to enter the Zoo. Masks will be available for purchase.
– Social distancing will be strictly enforced.
– Zoo admission tickets will be available and a limited number will be sold
per hour, with a specified check in time and can only be purchased online.
– Train tickets must also be purchased online.
– No walk-ins will be allowed.
– The Zoo has created a one-way path through the Zoo that guests are required to
follow.
– Daily activities such as keeper talks will not be offered.
– Wheelchairs and strollers will not be available for rent at this time.
– To minimize exchanges of items between guest and staff, Groupons will not be
honored during this time.
– Our concession stand will be closed.
– Feeding our animals will not be allowed.
– No outside food.
– No cash transactions, credit/debit cards only.
– Our restrooms will be closed. We will have portable restrooms at the new
entrance of the Zoo uphill from the Gift Shop and in our Picnic Grove area.
– Portable hand washing stations will be located at key points throughout the Zoo.
– Our Discovery Center will be closed.
– Surfaces throughout the Zoo will be sanitized according to CDC disinfecting
guidelines.
– We will have a small gift shop for purchasing souvenirs, drinks and prepackaged
snacks.
– If you would like to purchase a membership, you must do so online.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.