He donated the animals—including a hyena, a jaguar, and a camel—to the city of Atlanta. A hundred acres were reserved to house them in a new zoo at Grant Park. Forty years later the zoo’s ...

the city drained the pond and turned it into a parking lot for the zoo. From the 1880s to the mid-20th century, Atlantans spent summers cooling off at Lake Abana in Grant Park. Alongside it were a ...

Zoo Atlanta is located a mile south of Oakland Cemetery in Grant Park. No Atlanta Streetcar stops or MARTA train stations are available within walking distance, but the No. 832 bus stops by the ...

Added Dan Ashe, president of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), who grew up in Atlanta: “It’s the same physical space as the Grant Park Zoo of my childhood but completely different.” ...

Zoo Atlanta is still open when it rains ... The City of Atlanta has a parking fee at both the Cherokee Avenue and Grant Park ...

ATLANTA — A new Mellow Mushroom prototype location had its grand opening in Atlanta on Monday. The new location opened at The Boulevard at Grant Park along the Atlanta Beltline. It's the latest ...

That’s the recent memory Dr. Sam Rivera, vice president of animal health at Zoo Atlanta, recalls when asked about his staff’s working conditions before the Rollins Animal Health Center opened in ...

Popular Eastside attractions range from kid-friendly locales like Grant Park's Zoo Atlanta to Sweet Auburn's Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park, a protected area that features the ...

Photo courtesy Historic Oakland Foundation Grant Park is one of Atlanta's oldest ... more narrow and make it easier to ...