Lincoln Park
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Tags : Garden & Park
Timings : Sunday-Saturday-6:00am to 4:00pm
Nearest Subway : Armitage
Main attractions : Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pond
Wheelchair accessibility : All public buildings at the zoo have at least one wheelchair-accessibility entrance. All the animal encounter programs at Farm-in-the-Zoo are accessibility by wheelchair.
Pet friendly : Yes
Grab a bite at : Pasta Palazzo, Café Ba-Ba-Reeba, Chicago Pizza and Over Grinder Co, Athenian Room
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Lincoln Park, Chicago Overview
Named after Illinois’s favourite son, Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Park is home to one of the best museums in Chicago and a zoo that you can visit without even having to spend a dime. Inside this sprawling park, which stretches seven miles along the shore, from Ohio Street Beach to Hollywood Beach, one can also find the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Lincoln Park Cultural Centre and the Chicago History Museum, all of which are open for visitors for free. Other attractions include paths for walking, jogging or biking, playgrounds, golf courses, baseball fields and even a skate park. One also has an easy accessibility to the nearby Lakefront Trail from this park. This park is great for a cosy family picnic as well.
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Lincoln Park Highlights
1. Flora and Fauna
Houses over 1,100 animals from some 200 species including big cats, polar bears, penguins, gorillas, reptiles, monkeys as well as a varied variety of plants like Blue Fortune Agastache, Brookside Cran (Read More)esbill, Bur oak, dreamcatcher Hardy hibiscus and a lot more.
2. Pritzker Family Children's Zoo
This exhibit of the zoo is pretty famous with the locals as well as the visitors. It houses the native North American animals like the red wolves, black bears, North American river otters, and America (Read More)n beavers. It aims at teaching the visitors, especially kids, about the cohesive living environment with animals and humans.
The Pritzker Family Children's Zoo has various interactive learning experiences to educate kids and also organises various events in collaboration with NGOs and other organisations.
The Pritzker Family Children's Zoo has various interactive learning experiences to educate kids and also organises various events in collaboration with NGOs and other organisations.
3. Kovler Seal Lion Pool
Kovler Seal Lion Pool is home to the Grey Seal and Harbor Seal. This pool is made such that the seals can thrive naturally and take care of themselves. The area is designed with underwater lighting an (Read More)d realistic rockwork to provide enhanced viewing experience to visitors. The trainers at Lincoln Park Zoo perform seal training activities on daily basis which the visitors can view through the pool area.
4. Lincoln Park Zoo Helen Brach Primate House
Helen Brach Primate House provides natural habitat to monkeys like Allen’s Swamp Monkey, Black-and-white Colobus Monkey, Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey, DeBrazza’s Monkey, and Southern Black Ho (Read More)wler Monkey. It also is home to White-cheeked Gibbon, Pied Tamarin, Hoffmann’s Two-toed sloth, Francois’ Langur, and Crowned Lemur. All these primates are provided wild living conditions through eight different habitats with natural lighting, so that they can coexist as they would in the jungle.
5. Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein African Journey
This exhibit at the Lincoln Park Zoo features different levels of views for aquatic and terrestrial animals to give the visitors realistic experience. The entire area is divided into four ecosystems f (Read More)or over a dozen of African species. Ranging from tropical rainforests to dusty dry deserts, it is a home to animals like eastern black rhinoceroses, African painted dogs, dwarf crocodiles, among others.
6. Lincoln Park Zoo Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove
Lincoln Park Zoo Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove is a habitat to the wild African penguins. Inspired by Cape Town’s Boulders Beach, the exhibit comprises of a pool, burrow-like nest boxe (Read More)s, and rocky outcrops to replicate their native land. Through Malott Family Penguin Encounters program, visitors can also book a personal experience and get to interact with the penguins while learning about their daily life and activities.
7. Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo
Nature Boardwalk is basically a prairie-style garden with a man-made pond where thrive plethora of native plants with birds, insects, fishes, and frogs. It has plants like the Prairie dropseed, Gray-h (Read More)eaded coneflower, and even the Bur Oak. It serves as a laboratory for the Urban Wildlife Institute for monitoring wildlife and deploying various trial techniques towards resolving human-wildlife conflict. The Lincoln Park Zoo also organises second Saturday garden tours for visitors to see the varieties in bloom and ask the queries from inhouse horticulturists. This boardwalk also leads to the education pavilion with the appearance of a tortoise shell and is designed for open-air classes and other activities.
8. Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein Macaque Forest
Regenstein Macaque Forest in the Lincoln Park Zoo is a habitat for the Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys. The specific temperature needs like harsh winters of Japan are met by various micr (Read More)oclimates created within this exhibit. Japanese macaques are the most northern-living non-human primates on Earth and hence various researchers from the zoo’s Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes are committed to their care and these snow monkeys too voluntarily engage in cognition and problem-solving studies.
9. Regenstein Small Mammal and Reptile House
In the Regenstein Small Mammal and Reptile House visitors get to experience the reptiles from across four continents, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Spread across 32,000 square-foot, this (Read More) exhibit contains more than 200 small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. Some of the animals are Oriente Knight Anole, Northern Blue-tongued Skink, Moholi Bushbay, Madagascar Tree Boa, Green Tree Python, and many more.
10. Lincoln Park Zoo Walter Family Arctic Tundra
Lincoln Park Zoo Walter Family Arctic Tundra is home for the polar bears. The extreme living conditions required by this species is replicated by a tactile ice wall and squishy flooring for the damp s (Read More)horeline soil. The exhibit has split views of land and water both to provide a wholesome experience to visitors.
11. Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein Birds of Prey
Regenstein Birds of Prey is an exhibit at Lincoln Park Zoo with some of the most powerful birds in the world. It consists of cinereous vultures, European white storks, Himalayan monals, bald eagles, a (Read More)nd even snowy owls. Spread across 4,515 square feet, this exhibit has three free-flight habitats with open-air, wrap around viewing area.
12. Lincoln Park Zoo Hope B. McCormick Swan Pond
Hope B. McCormick Swan Pond serves as a reminder of the Lincoln Park Zoo’s history and legacy of bestowing Chicago with free zoo accessibility. It was refurbished in 1996 by the estate of Hope B (Read More). McCormick and is home to the famous snow-white trumpeter swans. Other inhabitants of the pond are Barrow’s Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser, North American Ruddy Duck, and Northern Pintail.
13. Lincoln Park Zoo McCormick Bird House
Lincoln Park Zoo’s McCormick Bird House comprises of around a dozen of natural habitats and a tropical free-flight aviary. It has birds from all over the world including the wetlands, seashores, (Read More) savannahs, and the tropics. Visitors can also witness some endangered bird species and the efforts that the zoo has taken to preserve them. Also, the zoo staff has daily bird feeding activity which is an enriching experience for visitors.
14. Farm In The Zoo
Located within the Lincoln Park Zoo, Farm-In-The-Zoo is a place for toddlers and children for their first encounter with nature and animals. It aims to provide experiential learning and promotes senso (Read More)ry connection through touch, smell, see, hear the animals. It consists of a Main Barn and two Edible Gardens with Illinois’ organic plants.
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