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COLUMBIA — Visitors to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden will soon be gliding across the Saluda River. The long-awaited Saluda Skyride, a suspended cable car, will connect the zoo and garden. The new ...

A congratulations are in order for two of Columbia's lovebirds. After more than a decade of trying to birth a Toco toucan, the bird team at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden welcomed its newest inhabitant this ...

The Saluda Skyride carries a rider over the Saluda River from the zoo to the botanical gardens on Thursday, August 28, 2025. After years of discussion, planning and construction, it is now possible to ...

Riverbanks Zoo will soon say goodbye to one of its favorite longtime exhibits. The zoo announced Wednesday that it will “soon bid a bittersweet farewell” to its two elephants, Belle and Robin, to make ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Visitors and keepers at Riverbanks Zoo were treated to an adorable surprise on Wednesday as as a baby Tammar wallaby made its first appearance, peeking out from its mother’s pouch.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Visitors to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden can now take a more scenic route to get from one attraction to the other. Riverbanks announced Friday that the long-awaited Saluda Skyride ...

A big lion that was a mainstay at Riverbanks Zoo and recognized as the oldest male lion in North America has died after nearly two decades of delighting visitors and zoo workers in Columbia. The zoo ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Riverbanks Zoo and Garden has a new resident—Suci, a 2-year-old Sumatran tiger, now on exhibit in the zoo’s tiger habitat. Born at the Memphis Zoo in 2023, Suci (pronounced Su-chee) ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Riverbanks Zoo & Garden is asking visitors to take part in an initiative to help save gorilla habitats. Small electronic devices like cell phones, ipads and laptops contain the ...

Her move is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan which will help promote genetic diversity in ...