El Paso Zoo

In 2012, El Paso residents voted to fund improvements to city parks, libraries, museums, and the El Paso Zoo. All four areas of the zoo – Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Chihuahuan Desert – were slated for updating. Most of the work has been completed and includes a rope climbing challenge, a simulated flash flood, and a large fabricated rock mountain that the lions can climb up and look down on the grassland animals.

 

   

The pathways are paved and flat plus the zoo is fairly small making it easy for visitors in wheelchairs. Some of the enclosures have railings that block the view but most have an alternative viewing area. I didn’t look closely but I believe the train and carousel are wheelchair accessible.

  The parking lot is large so RVs will fit if pulled through the spaces or parked across them. Zoo  31.76814, -106.44543