Parking is free on the street leading up to the zoo. You can pay $10 to park inside on Zoo Property
Free on the street, $10 in zoo lot.
You can park on the streets for free. It's short walk from the surrounding street parking. The zoo self-parking is $10-12 but it gets full very quickly and then they start charging $20 for valet parking.
99% of the time we were able to to find parking outside zoo pay parking area.
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