# What are YOUR favorite zoos, aquariums, parks, and gardens?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** vacation-travel\
**Created:** [July 3, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687 "2024-07-03T15:37:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687/41 "2024-07-05T22:03:59Z")

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> [@zbuzz](#):
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> San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
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> Hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars to rebrand it and everyone still calls it the Wild Animal Park.

> [@carrps](#):
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> Thanks, and, yes, old names have amazing persistency.

The “Africa Tram” will always be the The Wgasa\* Bush Line  
to me.

The now-retired Wgasa Bush Line — which transported visitors around the outskirts of the park for more than three decades — was named after the African-sounding acronym for “Who Gives a Shit Anyway?”

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**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687/42 "2024-07-07T00:06:41Z")

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Yes, that is the one I meant. The home of the Albino Alligator!

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687/43 "2024-07-07T00:16:23Z")

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Forest Park in St Louis–it not only Zoo (remember TV show with Marlan Perkins?), but also skating rink, Planetarium, Art Museum, Missouri History Museum–all free!–but the Muny in summertime, and of course maybe the largest municipal park in US for discovering

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687/44 "2024-07-09T21:36:52Z")

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forgot to add in separate area Shaw’s (Botanica) Gardens

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-zoos-aquariums-parks-and-gardens/1003687/45 "2024-07-10T03:05:56Z")

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I liked that big Park in Portland, Oregon that has the Zoo and the Botanical Gardens. I was wandering around it and stumbled across the Vietnam War Memorial. Very simple and very moving.

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