Franklin Park Zoo

The Franklin Park Zoo is a 72 acres (290,000 m2) zoo located in Boston. The zoo is located in the northeast portion of Franklin Park, Boston’s largest park and the last component of the city’s famed Emerald Necklace.nFrederick Law Olmsted, the original landscape designer of Franklin Park, created plans for a future zoological garden. This plan, however, was to be a naturalistic area for native animals, rather than a traditional zoo. The Franklin Park Zoo officially opened to the public on October 4, 1912. nThe zoo contains more than 220 species of animals and includes near 10 main exhibit areas.The 2011 movie Zookeeper, starring Kevin James, was filmed at the zoo in 2009, and was screened at the zoo on June 28, 2011 as a charity event.