It’s the Denver Zoo’s 120th birthday, and they celebrated in style: By getting a larger train with more comfortable seats and higher coaches, obviously.
The new Denver Zoo Railroad train is 71-feet-long and weighs eight tons. It follows the same route by circling the Zoo’s Woodland Garden and Conservation Carousel and passing by the Flamingo Pond.
Zoo officials say the higher coaches in the train give riders better views.
A fancy new train wasn’t the only way the zoo celebrated its milestone birthday.
The zoo is set to launch a new exhibit, “Washed Ashore, Art to Save the Sea” in September with 15 sculptures throughout the zoo.
Those sculptures are made of trash collected from the ocean. It aims to highlight the ongoing pollution problem.
Later this year, you can also check out the Edge, a new tiger exhibit.
