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The Western North Carolina Nature Center is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoological park in Western North Carolina operated by the City of Asheville. It was originally opened in 1925 and known as Recreation Park Zoo, Craig Park Zoo, [ 2 ] and Asheville City Zoo and housed a wide variety of native and non-native wildlife. [ 3 ]
The North Carolina Zoo is enjoying a baby boom in 2024 — the park’s 50th anniversary year — with more than a dozen births, including a female Hamadryas baboon named Winnie.
With 500 acres (2.0 km 2) developed, it is the world's largest natural habitat zoo. The North Carolina Zoo is a part of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. [5] The Zoo is 75 miles (121 km) west of Raleigh, 25 miles (40 km) south of Greensboro, and 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Charlotte.
The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737341. OCLC 946906577. Flank, Lenny (2021). The Zoo Tourist: Visiting America's Zoos and Aquariums. Red and Black Publishers. ISBN 9781610011440. OCLC 1400972328. Nyhuis, Allen W. (2008).
The zoo, located on 2,600 acres just outside Asheboro, had hoped to hit the million-visitor milestone in 2020, based on record tourism spending in the state in 2019.
In order to best meet the needs of all their guests, the NC Zoo hosts special quiet days for a more tranquil zoo experience. FOX8’s Shannon Smith goes […] Quiet days at the North Carolina Zoo
U.S. Route 129 (US 129) is an auxiliary route of US 29, which it intersects in Athens, Georgia.US 129 currently runs for 582 miles (937 km) from an intersection with US 19/US 27 ALT/US 98 in Chiefland, Florida, to an interchange with Interstate 40 (I-40) in Knoxville, Tennessee.
U.S. Route 23 (US 23) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that travels from Jacksonville, Florida, to Mackinaw City, Michigan.In the U.S. state of Tennessee, the highway travels 57.48 miles (92.51 km) in the northeastern part of the state from the North Carolina state line at Sam's Gap in the Bald Mountains to the Virginia state line in Kingsport.