SCRANTON -- The zoo at Nay Aug Park in Scranton would have turned 100 this summer. The zoo building will reopen this year, and it will have animals in it, just maybe not in the way you expect.

SCRANTON -- The old zoo at Nay Aug Park in Scranton has not had animals or visitors for five years, but you will soon see changes there. Scranton has leased the zoo to a non-profit organization ...

Aug. 8, 1977Nay Aug Zoo may closeMitchell Alperin, president of the Zoological Society of Scranton, told The Scranton Times the Nay Aug Park Zoo would probably close by the end of 1977.Alperin ...

The Scranton Recreation Authority is moving forward with efforts to convert the former Nay Aug Park Zoo into a facility for public use. With Lackawanna College’s plans to turn the facility into ...

A fix may be in the works for Scranton’s rundown, vacant former Nay Aug Park Zoo.A nonprofit organization that traps, neuters and releases feral cats hopes to use the shuttered zoo building for ...

A mural proposed for downtown Scranton would pay homage to Nay Aug Park’s late elephants, depicting them free from the bounds of a zoo in a piece of public art that will also portray the city ...

Scranton work crews demolish and remove the former wooden Community Playground in a northeast corner of Nay Aug Park near the Hanlon’s Grove area and former zoo building, on Dec. 11, 2024.

The Lackawanna Heritage Valley hosted a Fall Family Fun Day at the Nay Aug Park in Scranton. Families could enjoy crafts, storytime, a petting zoo, and, of course, some s'mores by the campfire.

The “Butterfly Playground” is phase 1 of the “All Inclusive Discovery Corridor,” planned for the area behind St. Cats and Dogs of Nay Aug Zoo. More accessible spaces are planned for the ...

The event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Nay Aug Park in Scranton and will benefit seven local, mostly foster-based animal rescues.