Audubon Zoo
Zoo · New Orleans, Louisiana
Fifty-eight acres inside Audubon Park uptown, under live oaks, and a zoo with a genuinely unusual history: in the early 1970s it was named among the worst in the country, and the city rebuilt it so thoroughly that within a decade it was winning national awards. The exhibit worth crossing town for is the Louisiana Swamp — a reconstructed bayou with cypress, a Cajun camp and WHITE ALLIGATORS, which are real leucistic animals descended from a nest found in the marsh in 1987 and exist essentially nowhere else.
6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118, United States
Open most days, generally 10:00 to 17:00 with seasonal variation; closed on some major holidays and occasionally for private events. Tickets are cheaper booked online, and combination tickets with the Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium are sold by the Audubon Nature Institute. Parking is charged separately and the lot fills on fine weekends. Cool Zoo splash park is seasonal with its own charge.