Bear Hollow Zoo

Bear Hollow Zoo is a zoo in Clarke County, Georgia which is located on Gran Ellen Drive. Bear Hollow Zoo is situated nearby to the swimming pool Memorial Park Public Pool, as well as near the trailhead Birchmore Trail.

Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
Type: Zoo
Address: 293 Gran Ellen Drive, Athens, GA 30606

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Milledge Circle Historic District and Foley Field.

Milledge Circle Historic District

Park

Photo: Gwringle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Milledge Circle Historic District is a park.

Foley Field

Stadium

Photo: Pruddle, CC BY 2.5.

Foley Field is a baseball stadium in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is the home field of the University of Georgia Bulldogs college baseball team. Opened in 1966, the stadium holds 3,633 people. Foley Field is situated 1 mile north of Bear Hollow Zoo.

Athens Confederate Monument

Memorial

Photo: Chuck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Athens Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial near Barber Creek in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is a Carrara marble obelisk mounted on a granite foundation engraved with names of the city's soldiers who were killed during the American Civil War. Athens Confederate Monument is situated 1 mile southwest of Bear Hollow Zoo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Five Points and Athens.

Five Points

Neighborhood

Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.

Normaltown

Neighborhood

Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2½ miles north of Bear Hollow Zoo.

Bear Hollow Zoo

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.92625° or 33° 55′ 35″ north

Longitude

-83.38717° or 83° 23′ 14″ west

Operator

Athens-Clark County Department of Leisure Services

Open location code

865RWJG7+F4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 495560048

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=zoo

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Memorial Park Public Pool and Birchmore Trail.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Zoo Operations Center and Memorial Park Office.

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