This is a very dreamy zoo road trip from Vancouver, BC to Boston, MA and back through the southern US. Day 1- Greater Vancouver Zoo Day 2- Woodland Park Zoo Day 3- Point Defiance Zoo Day 4- Drive 4.5 hours+ Cat Tales Day 5- Drive 8 hours Day 6- Zoo Montana+drive 4 hours Day 7- Drive 3.5 hours+ Dakota Zoo+drive 1.5 hours+ Jamestown Buffalo Museum+ drive 1.5 hours Day 8- Red River Zoo+drive 2 hours+Hemker Park and Zoo+drive 1.5 hours+Sea Life Minnesota Day 9- Minnesota Zoo Day 10- Como Zoo+drive 3.5 hours+International Crane Foundation+drive 1 hour Day 11- Henry Vilas Zoo+ drive 2 hours+ Racine Zoo+drive 1.5 hours+ Lincoln Park Zoo Day 12- Brookfield Zoo Day 13- Drive 1.5 hours+Washington Park Zoo+drive 50 minutes+ Potawatomi Zoo+drive 2 hours Day 14- Binder Park Zoo+ drive 50 minutes+Potter Park Zoo+drive 1.5 hours Day 15- Detroit Zoo Day 16- Drive 4 hours+ Toronto Zoo #1 Day 17- Toronto Zoo #2+drive 1.5 hours Day 18- Buffalo Zoo+drive 1.5 hours+Seneca Park Zoo+drive 1.5 hours Day 19- Rosamond Gifford Zoo+drive 5 hours Day 20- Franklin Park Zoo+New England Aquarium Day 21- Drive 2.5 hours+Beardsley Zoo Day 22- Drive 3.5 hours+ZooAmerica+drive 4.5 hours Day 23- Drive 4 hours+Knoxville Zoo+drive 2 hours+Chattanooga Zoo Day 24- Tennessee Aquarium+drive 2 hours+Birmingham Zoo+drive 3.5 hours Day 25- Hattiesburg Zoo+drive 2 hours+ Audubon Aquarium Day 26- Audubon Zoo+drive 1.5 hours+Baton Rouge Zoo Day 27- Drive 8.5 hours Day 28- Tulsa Zoo+drive 2.5 hours+Sedgwick County Zoo Day 29- Drive 1.5 hours+Rolling Hills Zoo+Kansas Fishes Aquarium+ drive 3 hours Day 30- Drive 3 hours+ Downtown Aquarium Denver+Butterfly Pavilion Day 31- Drive 8 hours Day 32- Hogle Zoo+ drive 5 hours Day 33- Boise Aquarium+ Zoo Boise+drive 5 hours Day 34- Drive 5 hours This 34-day road trip has 47 animal establishments (1 insect zoo, 6 aquaria, 1 other, and 39 zoos). The "other" is the Buffalo Museum.
I see that you have been following my various zoo trip threads over the years. I love planning big road trips and the one you've come up with looks to be exciting. Is there a chance of it becoming a reality? I've visited almost every zoo on your itinerary but Washington Park Zoo, Seneca Park Zoo, ZooAmerica and Butterfly Pavilion (near Denver) are 4 places that I've not been to and I'm guessing that you used mapquest.com to figure out the driving distances. Looks good.
A Dream or a Reality? A dream? Yes. A reality? No. I may be doing a not-so-epic road trip soon. African Safari Wildlife Park, Lagoon Deer Park, Cleveland Zoo. Thanks for replying, snowleopard!
Good Christ, that's a dream. I'd love to do a zoo road trip someday but it's not even worth planning it out here. Good move giving a whole day to Brookfield. LPZ only takes five to six hours and you can probably scrape by four if you pass up the farm area. You won't make all of Brookfield in a day.
Nice dream to have. Two days for Toronto is probably wise when your losing 4 hours that day to driving there. You can see the zoo in a day (opening to closing) but you really have to keep moving fast and wouldn't get to enjoy the animals as much. It will only get harder when the Eurasian Wilds opens in the spring.
