ZooZoo Review Zoo Ratings So Far

On Tuesday, I announced that ZooZooReview would be moving from Blogspot over to this blog. This site is where we have reviewed zoos all across the United States, but mostly in Florida. To catch you up with what you have missed, this post is to inform you of our best and worst zoos so far.

Today, we will take a look back at what we have rated each zoo so you can see how many elephants each of the zoos we have reviewed has received. For each zoo we use a rating scale from 0 to 5 elephants with 5 being the best. We have seen some awesome zoos and some zoos that are not so great. Here are the ratings.

O Elephants
The Seas @ Epcot - Lake Buena Vista, FL

0.5 Elephants
No Zoos @ This Ratings

1 Elephants
No Zoos @ This Rating

1.5 Elephants
Clearwater Marine Aquarium - Clearwater, FL

2 Elephants
Leesburg Animal Farm - Leesburg, VA
Mote Marine Laboratory - Sarasota, FL
South Carolina Aquarium - Charleston, SC
Tallahassee Museum - Tallahassee, FL
Tarpon Springs Aquarium - Tarpon Springs, FL
Wakulla Springs - Wakulla, FL

2.5 Elephants
Gulfworld Marine Park - Panama City Beach, FL

3 Elephants
Florida Aquarium - Tampa, FL (will be higher upon update which is coming soon)
Gatorland Zoo - Orlando, FL
Royal Gorge - Canyon City, CO
Sea World Orlando - Orlando, FL
Wild Adventures - Valdosta, GA
Zoo America - Hershey, PA

3.5 Elephants
No Zoos @ This Rating

4 Elephants
Montgomery Zoo - Montgomery, AL (Guest Post)
National Aquarium - Baltimore, MD

4.5 Elephants
National Zoo - Washington DC
Reston Zoo - Reston, VA (Zoo Controversy)

5 Elephants
Busch Gardens - Tampa, FL
Disney's Animal Kingdom - Lake Buena Vista, FL
Jacksonville Zoo - Jacksonville, FL
Lowry Park Zoo   - Tampa, FL
Maryland Zoo - Baltimore, MD
Zoo Atlanta - Atlanta, GA

Any zoo at or above a 3 rating is one which we would visit again. The zoos below 3 we will probably not be going back to unless we are starving for something to do. We would check out someplace new instead of going back to those zoos.

Looking at our ratings you can see that we absolutely loved 6 zoos and those zoos got 5 elephant ratings. We will go back to each of those zoos someday. Two zoos got 4.5 ratings and were really good, but one of those zoos has had some controversy and we won't be returning. We will likely visit the 4 elephant zoos again. There were also six 3 elephant zoos which we will likely go back to.  There are 6 2 elephant zoos that were okay. We rated only two zoos below a two so far and one was the Seas at Epcot, only because it is a ripoff solely for the zoo. However, since it is a part of Disney and we will likely have passes again at some point, we will be back there. Look forward to many other exciting ratings to come this year and beyond.

In the coming weeks look for Sarasota Jungle Gardens, The Brevard Zoo, The Central Florida Zoo, ZooWorld, and an update of the Florida Aquarium.

-Noland