Photos of the San Francisco Zoo to Help Plan Your Visit

Thomas SmithJuly 27, 2023

Planning a visit to the San Francisco Zoo? Our pro photographers have been there countless times. Here’s a visual look at the San Francisco Zoo in photos, to help plan your trip.

They might even poke their heads in to get a close look at you!

The San Francisco zoo has zebras and plenty of other savannah animals, too

They even have massive chimps and other apes

You can see California animals, too, like this amazing bald eagle

Journey to Australia at the SF Zoo to see emus and super cute koala bears

The colony of penguins is one of my favorite parts

Don’t forget to ride the Little Puffer steam train

It’s been entertaining visitors for over 100 years!

You can also see lions, tigers and other big cats at the San Francisco Zoo. It’s an amazing place and definitely worth a visit on your next trip to San Francisco.

Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith is a food and travel photographer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His photographic work routinely appears in publications including Food and Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, and the New York Times and his writing appears in IEEE Spectrum, SFGate, the Bold Italic and more. Smith holds a degree in Cognitive Science (Neuroscience) and Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University.