San Francisco Zoo
The San Francisco Zoo and Gardens is a 100-acre zoo located on the West Side of San Francisco, in the southwestern corner of the city between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 9:30 AM—4:30 PM
- Type: Zoo
- Description: zoo in San Francisco
- Also known as: “SF Zoo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mother’s Building and Fleishhacker Pool.
Mother’s Building
Building
The Mother's Building, also known as the Delia Fleishhacker Memorial Building, is a historic building that was once part of the Fleishhacker Pool and Fleishhacker Playfield and features Works Progress Administration-era murals, built in 1925. Mother’s Building is situated 770 feet northwest of San Francisco Zoo.
Fleishhacker Pool
Parking area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fleishhacker Pool was a public saltwater swimming pool complex, located in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California, United States, next to the San Francisco Zoo at Sloat Boulevard and the Great Highway. Fleishhacker Pool is situated 1,100 feet west of San Francisco Zoo.
Pine Lake
Lake
Pine Lake, previously known as Laguna Puerca or Pig Lake, is a freshwater lake in Pine Lake Park on the West Side of San Francisco. The lake is fed from the same aquifer as nearby Lake Merced.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkside and Sunset District.
Parkside
Neighborhood
Photo: Blackguard SF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parkside is a neighborhood on the West Side of San Francisco, California. It is located in the southern part of the Avenues south of Quintara and north of Sloat Boulevard.
Sunset District
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Sunset District is a neighborhood located on the West Side of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the most populous neighborhood in the city.
Parkmerced
Neighborhood
Photo: J. Ash Bowie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Parkmerced is a neighborhood located on the West Side of San Francisco, California. It was designed by architects Leonard Schultze and Thomas Dolliver Church in the early 1940s. Parkmerced is situated 1½ miles southeast of San Francisco Zoo.
San Francisco Zoo
- Categories: nonprofit organization, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.7329° or 37° 43′ 58″ northLongitude
-122.50232° or 122° 30′ 8″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
849VPFMX+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 404847048OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zoo
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Satellite Map
Discover San Francisco Zoo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“San Francisco Zoo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حديقة حيوان سان فرانسيسكو”
- Armenian: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկոյի գազանանոց”
- Armenian: “Սան Ֆրանցիսկոյի կենդանաբանական այգի”
- Bulgarian: “Зоопарк Сан Франциско”
- Cebuano: “Fleishhacker Zoo”
- Chinese: “旧金山动物园”
- Chinese: “舊金山動物園”
- Dutch: “Fleishhacker Zoo”
- Dutch: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنينة حيوانات سان فرانسيسكو”
- French: “zoo de San Francisco”
- French: “Zoo de San Francisco”
- German: “Fleishhacker Zoo”
- German: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Hungarian: “San Francisco-i állatkert”
- Italian: “zoo di San Francisco”
- Italian: “Zoo di San Francisco”
- Japanese: “サンフランシスコ動物園”
- Korean: “샌프란시스코 동물원”
- Navajo: “Naʼníʼá Hóneezíidi naaldeehii danílʼį́ bił hazʼání”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Norwegian: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Russian: “Зоопарк Сан-Франциско”
- Spanish: “Zoologico de San Francisco”
- Spanish: “Zoológico de San Francisco”
- Swedish: “San Francisco Zoo”
- Vietnamese: “Sở thú San Francisco”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Outer Sunset and Balboa Terrace.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Pachyderm Building and Komodo Alley.
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