Chester Zoo

Type: Animal Collection

Voted Large Visitor Attraction of the Year Winner 2007 at the Visit Chester & Cheshire Awards.

The UK’s number one charity zoo, with over 7000 animals and 500 different species, including some of the most endangered species on the planet. An all-year round favourite attraction for people of all ages!

Visit Realm of the Red Ape enclosure – a new home for the Zoo’s critically endangered Sumatran and Bornean orang-utans. See them in their new tropical environment, along with 4 noisy gibbons, birds, insects and reptiles, and one of the longest Reticulated Pythons in the world.

Experience Assam, with the herd of Asian Elephants, Hornbills, Tree Shrews and rare fish inside Elephants of the Asian Forest.

The Twilight Zone which is the largest free-flight bat zone in Europe, and is now also home to the Livingstone’s Fruit Bat - one of the world’s largest bats.

Fun Ark is a big hit with children of all ages and the award-winning gardens are justly famous, with formal bedding throughout spring and summer.

Opening Times

Peak Season 2008 15 Mar 2008 - 2 Nov 2008

Off Peak Season 2008/09 3 Nov 2008 - 3 Apr 2009

Prices

Tickets Information

Road Directions

Follow the brown Chester Zoo signs from M56, jct 14; M53, jct 12.

The zoo is also clearly signed on the A41 Chester road.

Public Transport Directions

From Chester Main Line Station: Take taxi (app. 2 miles), or bus to Town Hall bus exchange. Mon - Sat, First Crosville number 1 half hourly to main entrance, or number 4, half hourly to pedestrian entrance. Bank Hols, 1 only. Suns and Bank Hols, Arriva 411, 412 to main entrance.

From Merseyrail Bache Station: First Crosville 1, (Mon-Sat and Bank Hols) from Mill Lane or Arriva (Sun and Bank Hols only) 411, 412 from Liverpool Road. All Arriva Trains Merseyside manned stations sell combined rail/bus/zoo tickets.

From Rivacre, Ellesmere Port and Cheshire Oaks: First Crosville 4, half hourly to Pedestrian Entrance (Mon-Sat).

From Liverpool, Birkenhead and Ellesmere Port: First Crosville 1 half hourly to Main Entrance (Mon-Sat), Arriva 411, 412 half hourly to Main Entrance (Sun and Bank Hols).