Mountain lions, bighorn sheep and wild burros will anchor the Wild Utah expansion, with the largest habitats in the 3-acre area. But guests can also see badgers, gray foxes, bobcats, raccoons and porcupines in a series of smaller exhibits.
Construction on the Wild Utah project will begin in the fall and open to the public sometime next year.
Officials said the $22 million project will be finished sometime next year. The planned updates will mostly be containedon the east side of the zoo, with the tracks looping around or past new footpaths, animal exhibits and a restored section of Emigration Creek. From the train, visitors previously could only glimpse this area, once home to bison and a replica mining town.
With the substation gone, crews could reconfigure the land as needed to accommodate animals, giving the zoo a space to show off some of Utah’s varied wildlife and teach people how to take care of it. Hogle Zoo board chair Blake Fisher told those attendees he was most excited about the badger exhibit. Cox, Wilson and Mendenhall all said they had been to the zoo numerous times and it was a special place for their families. Cox said that growing up, the zoo was his “Disneyland.” Each official said they were excited for what the new exhibits would mean to future guests.
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