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Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

5400 N Pearl St
Ruston, WA 98407
Phone: (253) 591-5337
Our 3-year old loved it
4 Star Rating: Recommended

10/16/2004 Posted by acertain

We live 5 minutes from the Seattle zoo, and out 3-year is obsessed with animals, so we go there several times a month. We decided to check out the Point Defiance Zoo. While it's much smaller than the Seattle zoo, we really enjoyed it. One nice thing is that it's an aquarium too, and our son loved the sea otters, Beluga whales and the mammoth walrus. He especially enjoyed watching the sea otters smash their food on the rocks (the Seattle aquarium has the sea otters in concrete tanks with nothing to smash food on). In the zoo part, they have many animals that the Seattle zoo does (and, of course, vice-versa), like polar bears. It doesn't replace the Seattle zoo, but we'll be back.

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Land and aquatic animals of the Pacific Rim find a home at this Tacoma attraction.  See the full editorial review.

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  • Jan-Mar: 9:30am-4pm
  • Apr: 9:30am-5pm
  • May 1-24: Sun-Thu 9:30am-5pm
  • Fri-Sat 9:30am-6pm
  • May 25-Sep 2: 9:30am-7pm
  • Sep 3-30: 9:30am-5pm
  • Oct-Dec: 9:30am-4pm

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