Spring Break Giveaway Days is BACK!!

SPRING BREAK is here again & to celebrate we are GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF!! All week long we want to BRING YOU TO THE ZOO! Check out our partners, My719Moms.com and pikespeakparent.com for AMAZING ZOO prizes! Check our facebook, twitter and blog daily for giveaways and freebies the week of March 21-25!

Here are the week-long giveaways happening every day from Monday, March 21 through Friday, March 25:

Comment on the zoo’s BLOG any day all week for your chance to win 2 FREE SkyRide passes ALL WEEK LONG! Blog comments must be unique and only one entry per person, per day will be entered.

Win a Run to the Shrine t-shirt by being a FACEBOOK fan or TWITTER follower! Five winners will be chosen at random from all followers and fans this week.

Share your Zoo videos on our FACEBOOK page and be entered to win a Family 4 Pack! Two winners will be chosen at random during the week.

The daily giveaways aren’t being announced in advance. Guests will have to visit the zoo on Facebook or Twitter to find out what the daily giveaway is. Prizes include a Run to the Shrine registration, free Sky Ride, tram, and carousel rides (specific dates and times only), free giraffe feeding experience coupons, free admission passes, and more!

Adopt an Animal by April 30!

Exclusive Adopt Package and Limited Edition T-Shirt Giveaway in honor of our new Golden Lion Tamarin babies!

In honor of our brand new Golden Lion Tamarin babies, born March 30, 2010, you can adopt a Golden Lion Tamarin at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and give someone you love the ultimate warm fuzzy!

New animal parents who adopt any species by April 30, 2010 receive an ivory Zoo T-shirt in this limited edition print:


Visit our website to see the adoption levels from which to choose and more details about the Adopt an Animal program at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. New parents who adopt any species by April 30, 2010 will receive a voucher by mail for one free limited edition t-shirt. Voucher may be redeemed at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo admissions gates.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is committed to providing exceptional care for our hundreds of animal residents. It costs over $650,000 each year to feed and care for our 750+ animals. By adopting one of them you help provide for the outstanding care that these animals deserve. Your adoption gift directly supports the care of the animals at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Visit our website for more details about the animals you can adopt!

TODAY KICKS OFF SPRING BREAK GIVEAWAY DAYS!

It’s finally here…the day all school aged people wait for…SPRING BREAK! What better way to celebrate than with daily giveaways and GREAT prizes from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo?!

Visit the Zoo everyday this week for amazing Animal Shows. Click here to see the schedule.

Here’s how you can participate and WIN in Spring Break Giveaway Days…

Everyday giveaways ALL WEEK LONG:
• Comment on our blog any day this week for your chance to win 2 FREE Sky Ride passes! Blog comments must be unique and only one entry per person, per day will be entered. Winners will be chosen randomly and notified directly all week long.
• Win a Run to the Shrine t-shirt by being a blog follower, a facebook fan or twitter follower! Five winners will be chosen at random from all followers and fans during the week!

TODAY’S GIVEAWAY, Sunday, March 21, 2010
You will be entered to win a Run to the Shrine race registration valued at $30, a Run to the Shrine t-shirt, and 2 FREE Sky Ride passes by helping us get to 3,500 fans on facebook by April 1. Post this on your facebook page to be entered: “Become a fan of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and you will be entered to win GREAT prizes all week long during our Spring Break Giveaway JUST FOR BEING A FAN. Re-post this message for your chance to win.”

Check our facebook, twitter and blog everyday to find more ways to WIN and SAVE at the Zoo!

SPRING BREAK…means FREE stuff from the Zoo!

What’s better than free schwag in a cute Zoo bag? How about a SPRING BREAK GIVEAWAY EVERY DAY at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (and you get a bag too)! Check out our FACEBOOK, TWITTER, BLOG everyday during Spring Break (March 21-27) to win free passes, fun prizes, get coupons, and personally connect with the Zoo! We want to hear from you!

SNEAK PREVIEW: "Win a Run to the Shrine t-shirt by being a blog follower, a facebook fan or twitter follower! Five winners will be chosen at random from all followers and fans during the week! Don't miss out!"

Grand Opening of the NEW Front Entry

The Grand Opening celebration included a special ribbon cutting ceremony and a visit from two of the Zoo’s special animal ambassadors, Amiga the Shetland pony, and Nyota, our Nigerian dwarf goat.

The new area includes seven gates with new digital technology for easier access to the Zoo. With the new admission gates complex, the admission improvements give the Zoo the opportunity to be more efficient and guest friendly, whether selling a non-member a ticket or whisking an existing member through a “member’s only” gate. The new admission area will now streamline the front end of guest’s Zoo visits, giving them more time on Zoo grounds with family and friends.



Each of the first 100 Zoo guests to arrive this morning were entered into a drawing to win a Behind-the-Scenes Zoo encounter with their choice of the Zoo’s Grizzly Bears, Hippos, or Elephants. Congratulations to the Rash Family who won! They will choose which experience they would like to do with a total of 9 friends. (A value of $250).

Our winners!

Favorite Zoo Memories

Congratulations to two blog readers and winners of the “My Favorite Zoo Memory” contest!

If you posted one of the comments below, please email blogkeeper@cmzoo.org to claim your prize!

Favorite Zoo Memory, Winner #1
This is really hard since I have some many great memories to pick from. I think my favorite zoo memory was adopting Zuri, a Western Lowland Gorilla in 1997. After attending a parent’s day event I realized Zuri was sick. I went home that day and wrote the zoo a letter inquiring about the health and status of Zuri, who I dearly adored. A few days later I received a handwritten letter from the zoo keeper explaining Zuri’s condition and process. I found it very special that someone took the time to personally respond to my letter. Thanks you CMZ for all the great memories!

Favorite Zoo Memory, Winner #2
My favorite zoo memory was several months ago at the Cheyenne Mountain giraffe exhibit. It was the very first trip to the zoo for our 1 year old daughter Adelaide. We bought a couple crackers and showed her how to feed the giraffes. All she could say was "oooooooo" and point. When we gave her a cracker she held it out and when the giraffe got close with her long tongue Adelaide decided to try and give her kisses. It was the cutest and funniest thing I have ever seen! After laughing I thought I'd cry we showed her how to blow kisses to the giraffe instead of trying to french kiss it. Our most memorable trip to the zoo by far.

Contest: My Favorite Zoo Memory

In the spirit of a quickly approaching holiday season, we’ve decided to give away free tickets to the Zoo!

To win simply post your favorite Zoo memory as a comment to this post. It can be the first time you visited as a child, the first time you fed a giraffe, or the first time you saw your child’s eyes light up as they helped clean an animal ambassador’s cage in the Loft. Maybe it was even partyin’ it up at last summer’s Mountaineer Mixer Series!

We’ll announce two winners on Monday, November 30. The winners will receive a 4-pack of FREE tickets for Zoo admission.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s “Tweet a Treat” Contest

Win 4 FREE Boo at the Zoo tickets via Twitter!

Want to give orangutan friendly candy this Halloween? Learn more about the palm oil crisis and how you can help! Enter our “Tweet a Treat” Contest to get started! Visit our website to learn more about orangutan friendly candy and to see a list of choices.

HOW TO ENTER:

Step 1: If you are not yet a Twitter user, please visit Twitter.com and sign up for a free account.

Step 2: Follow @CheyenneMtnZoo on Twitter.

Step 3: To enter the contest you must tweet this message including the name of your favorite palm oil free candy on Twitter:

@CheyenneMtnZoo my favorite palm oil free candy is _______.

Winner will be chosen randomly from entries. Entry deadline is October 22, 2009, 5 pm.

Contest Winner

Thank you to all who submitted photos to the Three Deer photo contest!
Drum Role please…



The winning photo! Congratulations!
The winner receives four Sky Ride passes!

The Nature of Art

Have you taken the Zoo’s self-guided Art Walk tour? Ask for an Art Walk flyer on your next visit and experience an artistic adventure of culture, nature and animals! Here’s just one of the pieces you will discover:

Three Deer


Have you meet the Zoo’s Three Deer? I first met them 30 years ago as a little girl proudly posing for a photo next to my cousin who was visiting all the way from Florida – the Three Deer stood majestically in our photo’s background.

Catalogued and inventoried by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this sculpture is the work of renowned American artist, Paul Manship. Originally designed for the 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair, this bronze sculpture was purchased by Spencer Penrose for the Zoo in 1934 and features three deer posed in a group – a stag, doe and fawn.

Generations of families have posed for photos in front of this Manship creation. Do you have family photos that include the Three Deer? If so, email them to blogkeeper@cmzoo.org for your chance to win 4 free Sky Ride tickets. Select photos will be posted on Facebook and one family photo will be posted on the blog. The family of the winning photo will also receive 4 Sky Ride passes. Deadline September 30, 2009.