A good way to spend time with the family is a visit to the zoo, it can be fun to see the animals through the eyes of a child and educational as you walk through and learn about the different animals and their natural habitats. This Dakota Zoo Coupons page can help you find coupons for saving money on your next visit to the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota, along with giving you information on the zoo and a little of its history.

The Dakota Zoo opened its gates for the first time to the public on June 3, 1961, with twenty-three birds and seventy-five mammals. The first year the zoo saw more than forty thousand visitors, at an admission price of ten cents each. Since that time it has grown to contain over one hundred species of animals with as many as one hundred thousand visitors a year.http://www.dakotazoo.org/about.htm

On your visit to the zoo you may want to take a twenty minute ride on one of the two trains; the Leach Express and the Tribune Express. Each will take you past several species of animals and give you information on them as it goes by. Tickets for the trains are sold separately from admission. You may want to take a break while the kids play in the play ground area, or enjoy a picnic with food and drinks from the concession stand and on a hot day cool off with some ice cream from the Cass Clay Ice Cream Parlor.http://www.dakotazoo.org/atzoo.htm

These are some of the sites online that offer coupons, coupon codes, or printable coupons, to the Dakota Zoo. Coupons may be for BOGO (buy one get one), dollars or percentages off, you may need to spend a certain amount to get the discount. Zoo Coupons, Group On, Coupon Cabin and Coupon Mountain.http://zoocoupons.org http://www.groupon.com http://www.couponcabin.com http://www.couponmountain.com

The majority of coupons, discounts, and codes come with expiration dates, it is very important that you watch for these in the small print before trying to redeem them. You may need to spend a certain amount to get the discount.