[6] In May 2007, Glacier Run Splash Park, a children's water playground with 42 water-spray features, opened at the zoo.

[7] The splash park was the first phase of the Glacier Run area to open, which features polar bear exhibits modeled after the town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

The HerpAquarium features over 100 species of reptiles, amphibians, and fish, from around the world including boa constrictors, Gila monsters, panther chameleons, Chinese alligators and black piranhas.

A notable resident of the HerpAquarium is a 9.5-foot-long (2.9 m) rare male albino American alligator named King Louie.

The animals that can be seen in this exhibit include Sumatran tigers, orangutans, siamangs, North Sulawesi babirusas and Malayan tapirs.

[13] The zoo is home to three orangutans, a male Segundo (aka Gunny) and two females named Amber and Bella.

Amber is known as a social media star, particularly on TikTok, where videos of her pointing and ask zoo guests to show her things have gone viral.

The Islands Pavilion is an indoor area that houses many species of birds, including the white-throated ground-dove.

The pavilion also houses Rodrigues fruit bats, Aldabra giant tortoises, Cuban crocodiles, and Komodo dragons.

Finished in early 2011, this 4.3-acre (1.7 ha) outdoor exhibit is based on the theme of an old gold-mining town bordered by a glacier.

Outside the gold mine town are 3 exhibits for snow leopards, Amur tigers, and red-crowned cranes.

[19][20] The exhibit also includes classrooms, party rooms available for rental, viewing areas above and below water, and a 200-seat outdoor auditorium for watching animal training demonstrations.

Alongside Pytr the aviary houses Azure-winged magpie, baer's pochard, and red-breasted goose in a small walk through enclosure.

Animals featured here include lions, dromedary camels, southern white rhinoceroses, common warthogs, addaxes, meerkats, naked mole-rats, Hartmann's mountain zebras, Masai giraffe, Rüppell's griffon vultures, gray crowned cranes, wattled cranes, eastern bongos, a boma petting yard for Nigerian Dwarf goats, ring-tailed lemurs, and a monkey exhibit that opened in 2019 with colobus monkeys and red-tailed monkeys.

This exhibit of the zoo has animals from the Andes grasslands and Amazon rainforest of South America along with a botanical garden area.

The animals contained in this exhibit include Chilean flamingos, maned wolves, Linnaeus's two-toed sloths, red pandas, and hyacinth macaws.

In fall of 2022, the original hyacinth macaw aviary from 1969 was demolished, fully renovated and reopened in the spring of 2023.

The zoo has a booth called "Handimals" located by the entrance where kids can make an animal out of their hand prints.

The elephant had just finished giving rides to zoo visitors and was being led away when she wandered off and picked up the man.

They sought unspecified monetary damages as well as a court order preventing the zoo from altering or destroying the train while the lawsuit proceeds.

[37] On March 6, 2019, the zoo found a sinkhole after part of a mine collapsed in an undeveloped area near Mega Cavern.