Woodland Park Zoo
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| Date opened | 1898 |
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| Location | Woodland Park, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Coordinates | 47°40′06″N 122°20′59″W / 47.66834°N 122.34984°WCoordinates: 47°40′06″N 122°20′59″W / 47.66834°N 122.34984°W |
| Land area | 92 acres (37 ha) |
| No. of animals | 1,098 |
| No. of species | 300 |
| Memberships | AZA |
| Major exhibits | Trail of Vines, Northern Trail, Tropical Rain Forest, Banyan Wilds, African Savanna |
| Website | www |
Woodland Park Zoo is a zoological garden located in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Occupying the western half of Woodland Park, the zoo began as a small menagerie on the estate of Guy C. Phinney, a Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real estate developer. Six years after Phinney's death, on December 28, 1899, Phinney's wife sold the 188-acre (76 ha) Woodland Park to the city for $5,000 in cash and the assumption of a $95,000 mortgage. The sum was so large that the Seattle mayor (W. D. Wood) vetoed the acquisition, only to be later overruled by the city council. In 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to design the city's parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year the collection of the private Leschi Park menagerie was moved to Phinney Ridge.
As of the summer of 2010[update], the zoo includes 92 acres (37 ha) of exhibits and public spaces. It is open to the public daily, and received 1.05 million visitors in 2006. Its collection includes:
Woodland Park Zoo is a recipient of multiple Best National Exhibit awards from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, and ranks second to the Bronx Zoo in New York City for the number received. Woodland Park Zoo created what is generally considered the world's first immersion exhibit, a gorilla habitat, which opened in the late 1970s under the direction of zoo architect David Hancocks. Other exhibits include:
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