Caldwell Zoo
Zoo · Tyler, Texas
A privately endowed zoo in Tyler that started in the 1930s as a backyard collection at a children's day school and grew into a substantial East Texas institution — around eighty acres of natural-habitat exhibits arranged by region, kept in good condition and, by the standards of a city this size, unusually well funded.
2203 West Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Tyler, Texas, 75702, United States
⚠ HOURS AND ADMISSION ARE NOT STATED HERE — I could not verify them. Check caldwellzoo.org before travelling and look for cheaper advance online rates. Largely level ground across about eighty acres, which makes it easier going than Cameron Park Zoo in Waco. ⚠ Go in the morning — East Texas humidity empties the habitats by early afternoon. The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is minutes away and free.