Free Admission Offered At Elmwood Park Zoo For Norristown Residents

NORRISTOWN, PA -- Norristown residents can gain free admission to the Elmwood Park Zoo on the first Sunday of every month, officials announced.

Free admission will be in place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Residents must present valid photo identification in order to gain admittance. The dates for First Sundays for 2017 are as follows:

• March 5
• April 2
• May 7
• June 4
• July 2
• Aug. 6
• Sept. 3
• Oct. 1
• Nov. 5
• Dec. 3

Non-residents will be charged normal admission rates. Borough residents are defined by living within the following four boundaries:

• east of Forrest Avenue
• south of Johnson Highway
• west of Sandy Hill Road/E Fornance Street
• north of the Schuylkill River

Visitors at the zoo this summer should have the opportunity to see the two new jaguar cubs who were born in January.

Images courtesy Elmwood Park Zoo