Zoos in Kansas

Kansas has a dense network of community zoos, many of them city-run and several AZA-accredited. Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita opened on August 25, 1971, while Topeka Zoo in Gage Park has been open since 1933 and cares for about 300 animals. Sunset Zoo in Manhattan has held AZA accreditation since 1989, and Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City covers more than fifty landscaped acres in the state's southwest. Smaller options include Hutchinson Zoo, a nine-acre AZA-accredited zoo that opened on its current site in 1986, and the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit in Wichita's Central Riverside Park, which shows only native Kansas animals.