Today I had enjoyed picnic and zoo time at our Idaho Falls Tautphaus Park (pronounced taw-fuss) and zoo. Here’s a map to it, but pretty much you go south from 17th street on Rollandet avenue, past the Ross Hill cemetery and left into Tautphaus Park.
We were able to snag a couple picnic tables and parked them under a shady area by ourselves. The tables were clean and garbage cans were provided right around the corner.
The Tautphaus Park Zoo had one last stroller we were able to rent. The zoo is much bigger than when I first started going to it many moons ago. Who remembers the bear in the concrete cage? I heard the lions died a couple years ago, and their cage was empty still.
Today they had some tables setup in the kids petting zoo and kids could make candles or other activities. We wandered around for an hour or so checking out all the exhibits. One improvement I would suggest is to improve circulation and eliminate the many dead-ends. When we left I would have shopped the gift shop but was leaving with a large group.
Here are a few pictures I took today at Tautphaus Park Zoo:
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Yep that’s me in picture #5
I remember the lions, Joe. I lived in a trailer park across the way from the zoo, & I would hear them most mornings making their lion “guffaw” noises as they woke up.
It always broke my heart to visit the zoo back then. Yes, I also remember the bear in the concrete cage. I also remember the psycho chimp who would just sit there & rock in his cage, waiting for someone to get close enough so s/he could grab them.
I was planning to start a movement to either fix up that zoo or shut it down, but then I moved away in 1981. I was so glad to learn a few years ago that they had indeed improved the conditions at that zoo.
My high school group of friends spent many summer hours at the park. Frisbee & barbeques, plus lots of other stuff we’d never tell our parents about. It was a nice park – I’m glad they’ve kept it up!
You say that Tautphaus is pronounced tau-fuss. Wrong,I corrected this once a few years ago when the Post Register stated that tau-fuss was the correct pronunciation. I refered them to Mary Payne who was a friend of one of the Tautphaus girls and she varified the pronunciation was taught-foss. The land I now live on was once Tautphaus land and my wife’s mother and aunt knew the Tautphaus girls. When we dedicated the monument in the park to the Tautphaus family, we had a grand son of Charles Tautphaus in attendance and he also spoke. He said pronnunciation is with the second T pronounced.
You say tomato, I say tomahto.
It’s a nice little zoo regardless. I heard Pocatello has a nice zoo also.