{"id":418046,"date":"2026-07-30T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418046\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:17:08","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoo-shortening-summer-hours-starting-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418046\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo shortening summer hours starting August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 30, 2026 1:53PM<\/p>\n<p>Starting August 1, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo is changing its hours to 9 am to 2 pm, shortening the day by two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; As the heat continues, one local zoo is shortening its hours throughout the summer months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Starting August 1, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo is changing its hours to 9 am to 2 pm, shortening the day by two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The zoo says the new hours are to provide the best possible guest experience while prioritizing the safety and well-being of animals, staff and guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The adjusted hours will end on October 1 and return to 9 am to 4 pm.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 30, 2026 1:53PM Starting August 1, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo is changing its hours to 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[167229,167228,112,5483,114,113,167227,167226,294],"class_list":["post-418046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-167229","tag-august-1","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-chaffee-zoo","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-shortened-day","tag-summer-hours","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}