Great Plains Zoo
The Great Plains Zoo is a 45-acre zoo located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The zoo formerly was connected with the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, and prior to the closure of the museum, the museum displayed 150 mounted animals, including 38 "vanishing species".Photo: Sdgjake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Zoo
- Description: zoo and museum in South Dakota
- Address: 805 South Kiwanis Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Presentation Children’s Home and Sanford USD Medical Center.
Presentation Children’s Home
Heritage site
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Presentation Children's Home is a historic building at 701 South Western Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Built to replace an earlier orphanage in Turton that burned down, it functioned not only as an orphanage—one of the few in South Dakota—but also as a school from its opening in 1940 to its closure in 1966. Presentation Children’s Home is situated 3,600 feet east of Great Plains Zoo.
Sanford USD Medical Center
Hospital
Photo: Sdgjake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sanford USD Medical Center is a hospital operated by the Sanford Health system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is classified as a Level I Trauma center. Sanford USD Medical Center is situated 1 mile east of Great Plains Zoo.
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science
Museum
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science opened in 1999 and houses an art gallery, concert hall, large-format theater, and science museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science is situated 2 miles east of Great Plains Zoo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls
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Sioux Falls is a city of about 184,000 in Southeast South Dakota. Founded in 1883 in what was then known as the Dakota Territory, Sioux Falls has grown from a sleepy Midwestern town into a resort for shopping and tourism in the northern Great Plains.
Great Plains Zoo
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.53734° or 43° 32′ 14″ northLongitude
-96.76481° or 96° 45′ 53″ westOpen location code
86M5G6PP+W3OpenStreetMap ID
way 302349339OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooWikidata ID
Q5599788
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Navajo—“Great Plains Zoo” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنينة حيوانات جريت بلينز”
- Navajo: “Halgaitah Adahiilíiniidi naaldeehii danílʼį́ bił hazʼání”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Red Pandas and Big Horn Sheep.
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