Chicago - Lincoln Park Zoo

One of the benefits of our Louisville Zoo membership is the reciprocal memberships we get at zoos all across the country. Unfortunately for us, in Chicago our membership only works at Lincoln Park Zoo, one of the country's only free zoos. And our membership does not help with the parking fee (which is $14). Regardless, we enjoyed visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo even though we got there only a couple of hours before closing time.

Lincoln Park has the typical lions, tigers and bears. As always, we enjoyed all of the animal exhibits.

The play areas were most exciting to the little girl who loves to get out of her stroller.

My daughter's and my mom's hands in the paw of a tiger. I love hand photos.

If you do go to the Lincoln Park Zoo, be prepared for the parking price and get there early. Two hours is definitely not enough time to see everything at a leisurely pace. And a leisurely pace is what you get with a toddler!