Nestled within the dusty buttes of Papago Park, the Phoenix Zoo offers visitors a glimpse into a colorful menagerie. The Phoenix Zoo opened in November 1962. The zoo was originally called the ...

The pyramid tomb is visible from many places in Papago Park. It is especially visible from the Arizona and Desert Lives trails at the Phoenix Zoo. There is a trail that leads to the tomb ...

Home to the Desert Botanical Garden and the Phoenix Zoo, Papago Park is popular with locals and visitors alike thanks to its proximity to downtown Phoenix (less than 10 miles east) and its massive ...

Sitting just southwest of the Desert Botanical Gardens in Papago Park, the Phoenix Zoo operates seasonal hours; check the Phoenix Zoo website before visiting. General admission to the zoo costs $ ...

"Quite different will be the Phoenix Botanical Garden in Papago Park, once it's completed," read a December 1939 letter to The Republic from Starck. At this point, construction of the park was in ...

The Phoenix Zoo, which is located in Papago Park, is home to one Asian elephant, Indu, who arrived in the Valley in 1998 and celebrated her 59th birthday last month. Courtney Scott, elephant ...

Papago Park is centrally located and won't cost you ... Instead of going east to the Phoenix Zoo, take the entrance road just opposite into a parking area. Trails from there run all over the ...

Next time you're at Sky Harbor International Airport, take a walk along the mile-long indoor trail with stunning views.

It's 3.1 miles of crushed granite, with several concrete drainage support structures, slicing through a wide swath of the 1,500-acre Papago ... park is situated conveniently on the borders of ...

and had previously lived at the Houston Zoo and the Lincoln Park Zoo, according to the group. “The Phoenix Zoo remains dedicated to providing a safe and enriching environment for all of our ...

Botanist Gustaf Starck rallied people passionate about preserving desert plants with a sign outside his Scottsdale ranch.

If you've ever visited the Phoenix Zoo, you might have noticed the gleaming white ... setting a "national record," according to plaques on the tomb in Papago Park. Plaques on the tomb describe Hunt as ...