David Traylor Zoo 75 Soden Road Emporia, Kansas 66801 (620) 342-6558 10 AM - 4:30 PM Open until 8 PM Sundays & Wednesdays from Mother's Day through the first Sunday in October free Zoos of Kansas

Badger (Taxidea taxus)

The Emporia Zoo is a small zoo, but not the smallest in the state. The animals seem interested in the zoo's visitors, to an extent that I suspect that people often ignore the signs and give them food. I particularly liked the unusually tame badger,
the cute cotton-top tamarins, and the large bull elk which sometimes bugles and puts on a display for the buffalo and deer in the neighboring pen. 

Don't miss the larger animals (with the exception of the mountain lion) are in a separate area behind the zoo, and across the street. They can be seen from your automobile and they are available for viewing around the clock.

The Emporia Zoo is located in Soden's Grove Park, which has a small train which operates on summer evenings. The park also includes the Marsh Arch Bridge, which is no longer open to vehicles, and the All Veterans Memorial which has separate markers for each of the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Persian Gulf War. 

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