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Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is an 80-acre (32 ha) nonprofit zoological garden and conservation organization located in City Park of Denver, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1896, it is operated by the Denver Zoological Foundation and funded in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
High Res 3.5' Orthoimagery tiles retrieved from USGS archives using the National Map Seamless Server 13SED025980_200404_0x3000m_CL.zip 13SED025995_200404_0x3000m_CL.zip
September 17, 1986. City Park is an urban park and neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. The park is 330 acres (1.3 km 2) and is located in east-central Denver. The park contains the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Ferril and Duck Lakes, and a boathouse. City Park is also the name of the neighborhood that contains the park ...
View at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1909. The zoo first started as the National Museum's Department of Living Animals in 1886. [12] By an act of Congress on March 2, 1889, [13] [14] [15] for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people", the National Zoo was created.
The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737341 .
Website. www.cmzoo.org. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a zoological park located southwest of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Cheyenne Mountain in the United States. At an elevation of 6,714 feet (2,046 m) above sea level, it is the highest zoo in the country. The zoo covers 140 acres (57 ha), 40 of which are in use.
Elitch's Zoological Gardens opened May 1, 1890, on 16 acres (6.5 ha) of former farmland bought by John Elitch and Mary Elitch. It was the first zoo west of Chicago, and it offered the Denver community a unique cultural experience. Mary Elitch Long managed the park for 26 years following John's death in 1891.
Mayfair. Parkfield. RiNo – "River North," part of the Five Points neighborhood. Northside – a large area of northwest Denver. South Denver – an area encompassing several neighborhoods south of Alameda Blvd., and the name of municipality annexed into Denver in 1894. Uptown – an area roughly corresponding with North Capitol Hill neighborhood.