The Denver Zoo is constantly evolving. New exhibit design is currently exchanging a taxonomic-based site plan that exhibits animals grouped by family, genus and species for one based on environment, including exhibits that contain a variety of species sharing a distinct landscape setting.

Asian Tropics required new facilities and the modernization of infrastructure in particular. Parks & Gardens developed a master plan strategy for detaining water quality volumes on-site, using the water to support landscape development and passing storm volumes on to Duck Lake in City Park.

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Denver Zoo Millennium Master Plan

Denver Zoo Millennium Master Plan for infrastructure

The Asian Tropics exhibit will treat water quality capture volume on site and pass storm flows from larger events to Duck Lake, which has been modified to detain a localized 10-year storm event