{"id":130275,"date":"2026-03-05T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:50:08","slug":"erie-zoo-opens-for-the-2026-season-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130275\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Zoo opens for the 2026 season | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE \u2014 The Erie Zoo opened to the public Sunday for the start of its 2026 season and will hold its annual grand reopening day celebration Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Admission will be free to visitors all day, zoo officials said, thanks to sponsors. Free breakfast treats, coffee and hot chocolate will be available while supplies last.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>kAm\u201c%96 2?:&gt;2=D 2?5 DE277 2C6 6I4:E65 E@ H6=4@&gt;6 6G6CJ@?6 324&lt; 7@C 2 ?6H D62D@? 2E E96 tC:6 +@@[Q D2:5 #@@ z@;2?4:6[ tC:6 +@@ rt~ 2?5 AC6D:56?E] \u201c(6 =@@&lt; 7@CH2C5 E@ 2?@E96C 8C62E D62D@? @7 &gt;62?:?87F= 6IA6C:6?46D E@86E96C]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 K@@ \ud83d\ude00 @A6? 52:=J 7C@&gt; `_ 2]&gt;] E@ d A]&gt;] ?@H E9C@F89 }@G] b_[ H:E9 DA64:2= 6G6?E 9@FCD =:DE65 @? k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^6C:6K@@]@C8Qm6C:6K@@]@C8k^2m]U?3DAjk^Am<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color:#eee;padding:20px\">Stay informed: <a href=\"https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin?v=001nB4nx3I80Xr3Eu-fX13roiYlJGdQJO6OXdgyNdAUbBcdGUHweHP5VXj65O3RRwcUuIZUE2zd2OYpFulnqfdLwaZk0w0mVan8fZq9xuzpwpRT9E3KAhLruwKuk3IF1LPIqSmC3hMkvgEPDTiq3iwsJNQK-HEE7s1H4USex62mfq0%3D\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for news alerts<\/a>, morning news headlines and sports highlights to keep updated on news that matters to our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE \u2014 The Erie Zoo opened to the public Sunday for the start of its 2026 season and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,12586,139],"class_list":["post-130275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local_news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}