Toronto Zoo

Toronto Zoo is an amazing destination for families, animal lovers, and anyone looking to spend a fun day outdoors. The zoo is huge and well-organized, with a wide variety of animals from around the world, including pandas, tigers, gorillas, and exotic birds. The exhibits are thoughtfully designed, providing naturalistic habitats that make it feel like you’re getting a real glimpse into the animals’ lives. There are plenty of walking trails, picnic areas, and educational displays that make the visit both enjoyable and informative. Seasonal events and interactive experiences, like feeding sessions or educational talks, add extra value to the visit. Plan to spend several hours exploring — comfortable shoes and water are a must! Toronto Zoo is a top-notch destination for a fun, educational, and memorable day in Toronto.
Nafiz Imtiaz - a week ago

Zoos- the places humans see animals in enclosures as compared to wild or national parks where humans are enclosed in vehicles or cages and animals roam around. Millions of years ago, we humans roamed around with wild animals hunting them and gathering, then something inside our bodies changed giving us the leverage to use tools, develop languages and we soared on the top of the world, migrating to concrete jungles, leaving behind wild companions. However we still long to see the past friends from the convenience at our cities, hence the zoos. Having said that, welcome to Toronto zoo, which was conceptualized with good intention of providing the animals kept here with plenty of space in their enclosures so they don't miss jungles much, has one different fallout - distances. Due to the vast size of enclosures, the pathways for humans around them are also vast, totaling easily more than 10 kms, so beware, if you intend to cover everything the zoo offers to show you, it is virtually impossible to cover in a single day even for people used to longer walks, let alone the family with kids. So, plan accordingly from the literature provided by zoo (online) considering the priorities or type of animals you would like to see with your friends or families and take into account the distances involved. You may opt for the "zoomobile" offered by the zoo which is a transit service between different areas running at intervals, or even split the visit into more than one day. Since enclosures are big, animals are often on the other edge (and their butts facing you), a medium power binoculars will greatly enhance the enjoyment. Need less to say, that if you intend to preserve the sighting of animals, a camera with zoom capabilities will be priceless as cellphone cameras will not be that helpful. Zoo offers 10% discount on presto card on entry ticket but not on the online ticket purchase, so you may prefer buying tickets on the spot. Plenty of eateries here including a Tim Horton's at the entrance, and inside shops even selling alcoholic beverages, although I dont feel that the alcohol inside either you or inside the animal you are watching will offer any enhancement in the experience for either side (yes if you intend to party only inside the zoo, it is different, bur there are better places outside zoo for that). I saw one shop playing rather loud music, but could not understand whether it was for human visitors or to irritate the resident animals who love noise free environment. The exhibit areas are divided in Indo-European Malaya Africa Savana Americas Tundra Trek Eurasia Wilds Australasia And a discovery zone While zoomobile is a help to transit between stations, it is not intended to give a riding trip while watching animals, you need still to walk around enclosures to see animals. Some of the pictures I could take during the first visit of the zoo covering around 50% in four hours, are here with this review, intend to visit again to cover the rest 50% and will post more pictures then Uodate - Visited again on 9th October 2025 to cover the remaining areas and could manage to get some good shots. Posting them here.
Basant Srivastava - 2 weeks ago

Visited in September and had such a fun time! Be ready to walk a lot hehe 😅 The zoo is really big with animals from all over the world. We spent about 4 hours there and still couldn’t see all the animals and exhibits. Such a cool experience and definitely worth the visit!
Simranjeet Kaur - a month ago

I visited on a very hot summer day and unfortunately many of the animals were either hiding in the shade or sleeping, which made it harder to see them. I was especially excited to see the polar bears, but they were resting during my visit. The zoo itself is quite large, and it can easily take half a day to explore all the different sections. I think going in the fall would be a better experience since the weather is cooler and the animals are likely to be more active and visible. Despite the heat, I really enjoyed walking through the different areas, and my favorite part of the zoo was definitely the Africa section with its wide variety of animals and beautiful setting. Overall, it was a fun visit and I would recommend it, but the timing of the season can make a big difference in what you get to see.
Albion - 2 months ago