Queens Zoo
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🦒 Zoo · Queens
2 hours · $$ · No reservation needed
- 🚇About 35 min by subway or carFrom Midtown · Getting there: Subway 7 to 111 St, then a 10-minute walk; paid park lot if you drive
- 🍼Stroller-friendlyFlat surfaces — bring the stroller
- 🌳Some shadeGreat on sunny days · Good on cool days · Rain-OK
- ⏱️Typical visit: 2 hoursBest seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall
A small zoo in Flushing Meadows park with only North American animals: a Buckminster Fuller dome left from the World's Fair is now a walk-through aviary, plus pumas, bison, sea lions and a farm area where you can feed goats; done in a little over an hour.
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