The National Weather Service has recognized ZooTampa at Lowry Park as StormReady, making it the first non-theme park Zoo in Florida to ... On Facebook and Twitter.Sign up for our free newsletter.

Travelers were also pleased to learn that access to all of the rides at the zoo is included in your general admission ticket (which some visitors found expensive). ZooTampa at Lowry Park is open ...

"The city wanted to have a larger park and a zoo. And since it was Lowry who initiated the idea of having the park space, they went ahead and named it for him," says Kite-Powell. In the late 1920s ...