Nashville Zoo at Grassmere | |
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36°05′21.1″N 86°44′37.4″W / 36.089194°N 86.743722°W | |
Date opened | 1990, as Grassmere Wildlife Park[2] |
Location | 3777 Nolensville Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
Land area | 188 acres (76 ha)[2][1] |
No. of animals | 6,230[1] |
No. of species | 339[1] |
Annual visitors | 1.2 million[3] |
Memberships | Association of Zoos and Aquariums[4][5] |
Director | Butch Spyridon[6] (Board chair) Rick Schwartz[6] (President and CEO) |
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Website | www |
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic plantation farmhouse located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Nashville. As of 2014,[update] the zoo was middle Tennessee's top paid attraction and contained 3,736 individual animals, encompassing 352 species.[7] The zoo's site is approximately 188 acres (76 ha) in size and is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo has around 1.2 million visitors a year.[3]
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