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July 17, 2026
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Pride Night at the Cincinnati Zoo

Get your tickets now for Pride Night at the Cincinnati Zoo on Friday, July 17! Cincinnati Pride will take over the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden for an evening where our community and friends can experience the Zoo together like never before! Drag performances, live DJs, acoustic performers, carousel, and train rides are included. Drinks and light bites will be available for purchase. Experience animal encounters, enrichment, and chats while you make your way around the Zoo. This is an after-hours event. Cincinnati Zoo memberships are not valid for entry.  All ages are welcome, but entertainment is geared more towards adults.

Tickets

Early Bird Ticket Price: $25 through June 27!

Regular Ticket Price: $32

Ticket includes entry and parking starting at 6:00 PM

  • rico the porcupine with a cardboard box painted in pride colors
  • people standing wearing rainbow outfits
  • elephant with a cardboard ball painted in pride colors
  • meerkat in enrichment with pride flag

Happy Pride Month! The Cincinnati Zoo celebrates the diversity of our plants & animals, staff, visitors, and community. We believe the Zoo should be a place where everyone can be themselves, and we strive for the Zoo to be a place where differences are recognized, welcomed, and celebrated. We’re proud to inspire every visitor with wildlife every day!

t-shirt with rhinoceros

Pride items are available at the Zoo Gift Shops and online!

Celebrating Diversity

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden CELEBRATES the diversity of our plants & animals, staff, visitors, and community. We believe the Zoo should be a place where everyone can be themselves. We strive for the Zoo to be a place where differences are recognized, welcomed, and celebrated through our culture, processes, programs, and very presence in the community.

We ACKNOWLEDGE that inequity is an issue we must confront and address. We recognize that some communities face barriers that limit engagement with the Zoo and our mission. We are working to understand these barriers and take actions that will support systemic change to benefit everyone.

We COMMIT to openness and transparency. We will seek out and listen to diverse voices to help us shape our role in the community and as an advocate for social and environmental justice. Recognizing that we cannot achieve our mission without a central focus on equity, we commit to an intentional path forward.