2918 West Capitol Street
Jackson, MS , 39209

Phone: (601) 352-2580

Website

The Jackson Zoo has attracted people from across the state and beyond for more than 90 years. The Zoo has an animal collection representing over 120 species and nearly 800 individual animals that provide glimpses of native wildlife from around the world.
The Jackson Zoo is situated within the historic 110-acre Livingston Park. Guests can also eat at the Elephant House Cafe and purchase souvenirs from the Jackson Zoo Trading Company.

Machine 3 is located in the zoo gift shop and admission is not required to squish the pennies. Each cost is 76 cents per design--worth supporting the zoo. You use your own coin. The designs are:
1) Red Tail Panda,
2) Tiger,
3) Alligator,
4) Rhino.

9/28/25: The zoo closed the admission booth at 3:30 and we arrived at 3:35. I went to the gift shop and the nice young man there helped me. He talked to the worker inside the zoo to let me go to the penny machine. She was super nice and said I could go in and then said maybe they had some pennies in the office. She checked and a 3rd employee said she's go roll the pennies for me because the machine had been acting up yesterday. It's a zinc machine so the 3rd gal said she's use her phone to buy them and I had cash.
I was able to get all 3 pennies and they looked fine for being zincs. 2 thumbs up to the 3 nice zoo employees who helped me today. JLT