Detroit Zoo Extends Hours For Labor Day Weekend

ROYAL OAK (WWJ) - The Detroit Zoo is giving kids and their parents more time to go "wild" before the school bell rings by extending its Labor Day weekend hours until 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The zoo opens at 9 a.m.

Weekend visitors can take advantage of the added hours to catch the final days of Dinosauria, featuring more than 30 life-like animatronic dinosaurs that roar, snarl and move. The Dinosauria exhibit ends Labor Day. Tickets are $4 with zoo admission for visitors 2 years and older.

Guests will also have more time over the holiday weekend to check out the zoo's award-winning animal habitats, including the newly remodeled lion enclosure. The lions' former 3,500-square-foot home has more than doubled in size, and the moat has been replaced with a 17-foot-tall glass wall that allows visitors to see the lions up close.

The Wild Adventure Theater in the Ford Education Center will remain open late as well, where "Dora & Diego's 4-D Adventure" and "Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4-D Experience" are now showing. Tickets are $4 with Zoo admission for visitors 2 years and older.

Situated on 125 acres of naturalistic exhibits, the Detroit Zoo is located at the intersection of 10 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, just off I-696, in Royal Oak. Admission is $12 for adults 15 to 61, $10 for senior citizens 62 and older, and $8 for children 2 to 14 (children under 2 are free).

For more information, call (248) 541-5717 or visit www.detroitzoo.org.