Dickerson Park Zoo
Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, Missouri, connects people and animals to inspire our admiration and conservation of wildlife and wild places.
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Location:
Springfield, MO, 65803
Phone:
417-833-1570
Mon - Sun:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Pumpkin Stomp & Chomp 2009Created on Wednesday
Wall PhotosUpdated about 2 months ago
 
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Dickerson Park Zoo KSPR's Craig Carnesi talked with zookeepers about preparing for colder weather

Source: www.kspr.com
Each Wednesday the KSPR Storm Vision HDWeather Team will take an in-depth look at Ozarks weather and how it affects everyone and everything.
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Dickerson Park Zoo Here's KOLR/KSFX's story on the pumpkin stomp

Source: ozarksfirst.com
Now that Halloween is over, what do you do with your old pumpkins?This is how the Dickerson Park Zoo deals with the leftover gourds.Today several animals at the zoo, including the hippos and elephants, ...
Gary Harris
Gary Harris
for the easily amused...
Fri at 1:32pm
Joseph Ziegler

Joseph Ziegler VERY COOL NEED TO GO THERE SOMETIME SOON!!!

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Dickerson Park Zoo The elephants and Henry the hippo made "pie" out of the pumpkins today at the zoo!

Crystle Roby
Crystle Roby
Wish we could have been there! We are kinda partial to Henry ;)
November 4 at 7:06pm
Melinda Arnold
Melinda Arnold
We'll get video up sometime, soon. Having to do a little editing work on it.
Fri at 7:33am
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Dickerson Park Zoo Annual pumpkin stomp at the elephant exhibit, Wednesday 11/4, 2 p.m. @dpzoo @sgf

November 3 at 2:38pm
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Dickerson Park Zoo Thank you to everyone who came out to SPOOKTACULAR this year. Despite all of the weather setbacks, we had more than 17,800 people!

November 2 at 6:37am
Susie Graham
Susie Graham
That's great considering the weather. We didn't get to visit, but love the zoo and will be back as soon as we are in Spfg. again....
November 2 at 6:42am
Amber Snow Neil
Amber Snow Neil
We went during a monsoon! It was a lot of fun though.
November 2 at 6:46am
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Dickerson Park Zoo Counting down to Halloween - Two more nights of SPOOKTACULAR, 6:30-9 p.m. #dpzoo #sgf #insgfmo

October 30 at 8:34am
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Dickerson Park Zoo WOW! We had 220 VERY dedicated SPOOKTACULAR fans in the rain last night. A special thank you to all of you!

October 30 at 6:07am
Missy Marshall
Missy Marshall
Wow! Talk about Diehard Spook Fans!! W2G!!!
October 30 at 6:53am
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Dickerson Park Zoo The sun is out! (With only a slight chance of rain!) Have you made your SPOOKTACULAR plans? Open nightly through 10/31. #dpzoo #sgf #inSGFmo

October 28 at 9:01am
LeeAnn Ashcroft Smith
October 28 at 9:11am
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Dickerson Park Zoo From this morning's News-Leader - Thank you for covering SPOOKTACULAR!

Source: bit.ly
Dede and Gypsy Rose Blancharde have a membership to the Dickerson Park Zoo, so they go a lot.
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Dickerson Park Zoo Looking forward to a BIG night at the Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Co. Halloween SPOOKTACULAR! Gates open 6:30-9 p.m.

October 24 at 3:54pm
Margaret Mills
Margaret Mills
We'll be there om Halloween. It's a great event for kids that aren't quite ready to go door to door yet.
October 24 at 4:30pm
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
It was great fun tonight. The art is wonderful. Good job Hillcrest art students.
October 24 at 6:53pm
Kevin
Kevin
Yes, kudos and thanks to everyone involved. Tonight was a blast.
October 24 at 10:40pm
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Dickerson Park Zoo In studio with Mike Edwards and Michael Roberts on JOCK 98.7 at 3:41 ... tune in. Going down the hall to KBFL after.

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Dickerson Park Zoo If you missed Ozarks Today on KY3 @kytv - check out our morning segment http://www.ky3.com/news/local/65757002.html (corrected KY3's Twitter name)

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Dickerson Park Zoo And, yes - SPOOKTACULAR goes on - rain or dry! We're open every night now through Halloween, 6:30-9 p.m.!

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Dickerson Park Zoo Thanks to the 1440+ Friends of the Zoo members and guests who made last night's Halloween SPOOKTACULAR preview a huge success!

October 22 at 5:08am
Crystle Roby
Crystle Roby
We had a great time last night! Thank you for all the hard work! And the rain held off too! And BTW, I was hoping to see you Milinda, but unless you had a wild costume on that I didnt recognize, I didnt get to see ya! :(
October 22 at 7:37am
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Dickerson Park Zoo
Thanks Crystle. Our staff and volunteer have worked VERY hard to put everything together and build new props this year. If you have pictures, please post them!

And, I was dressed as a zoo staff person last night :) Wasn't trying to hide!
October 22 at 2:23pm
Crystle Roby
Crystle Roby
LOL .. I guess we just missed you then. And yes I know that there are ALOT of people that work very hard to make Spooktacular so great! Please give them all our thanks! Jessy said it was "just spooky enough. But I wasnt scared." Think we may just have to go back again. :)
October 22 at 6:27pm