Featured Animals - Mountain Lion

Mountain Lion Highlights

Everything Mountain Lion

Rocky Mountain Wild

As America’s only mountain zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is uniquely suited to showcase Colorado wildlife in its natural setting. Voted #2 Best Zoo Exhibit in North America in USAToday’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards in 2022. Rocky Mountain Wild connects you with the wild heritage of the Rocky Mountain region by offering engaging encounters with mountain lions, Alaska moose, Canada lynx, Mexican wolves and bald eagles. Watch grizzly bears fishing for trout and river otters playing in a pond. Plus, our special learning experiences in The Loft, offers children of all ages unique ways to interact, assist with animal care, and experience cool keeper demos and talks.

Please note:

*Our grizzly bears are temporarily located next to the Asiatic Bear exhibit, near the play hill, above the tapir yard. We look forward to welcoming bears and guests back to the grizzly exhibit when it reopens soon. Read why at cmzoo.org/bears!

Endangered Species at the Zoo

Are They in Danger of Extinction? Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy. Ways to adopt your favorites: Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full . . .