Riverbanks Zoo - Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden

Riverbanks also has a 70-acre (28 ha) botanical garden with more than 4,200 species of native and exotic plants. A trail system lets visitors explore several kilometers of bottomland and upland mixed hardwood forests in search of the of native wildlife that call the Zoo and Garden home.

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