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Old 05-30-2012, 10:39 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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TripAdvisor.com, a top online travel site, released its list of the nation's Top 10 Zoos today, and Riverbanks is on it.

TripAdvisor ranks Riverbanks Zoo among top 10 in U.S. - Local / Metro - TheState.com
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Old 05-31-2012, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Love it! Riverbanks has been on my SC "bucket list" for 12 years now. STILL haven't been () DOH!

We knew a guy married to a Thai woman, whose mother had heard about and wanted to visit Riverbanks when she came to visit them in Greenville.
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Old 06-01-2012, 01:34 AM
 
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Riverbanks Zoo is an excellent zoo, surprisingly large for a mid size town like Columbia. A must visit.
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Old 06-01-2012, 06:52 AM
 
Location: WI
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we've gone countless times since our move down here 3 yrs ago; became members so on any given day we can just take a drive over and walk around for a couple hours. And though i'm not a flower person so to speak, it's nice seeing the gardens as well, esp when at full bloom
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Old 06-05-2012, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Greenville, SC/Greensboro, NC
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Riverbanks is an amazing zoo (wish there was something similar in the Upstate) - but I made the mistake of going there during Columbia's mid-July heat LOL (should have stayed inside at the penguin exhibit)
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Old 06-05-2012, 01:12 PM
 
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TripAdvisor.com, a top online travel site, released its list of the nation's Top 10 Zoos today, and Riverbanks is on it.

TripAdvisor ranks Riverbanks Zoo among top 10 in U.S. - Local / Metro - TheState.com

I agree the Zoo is great, but as far as it being the largest and most popular tourist attraction in SC is nowhere near the truth. As a matter of fact I goggled tourist attractions=in SC and of three site I visited it did not even make the list.
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Old 06-05-2012, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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I just googled "South Carolina's major tourist attractions" and historic Charleston is #1. I think they were talking about single venues. Maybe there's a single venue in the state that attracts more visitors per year than Riverbanks Zoo. If there is then I guess Riverbanks isn't #1 after all.
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Old 06-05-2012, 03:18 PM
 
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The list that I saw for the top ten attractions in SC isn't ranking them by attendance, obviously.

As far as a single venue goes, Riverbanks has got to be pretty high on the list.
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:23 AM
 
Location: Bishkek/Charleston
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I've been to many Zoo's nation wide and I'll say Riverbanks is far from being in the top 10.
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Old 08-07-2012, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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So have I, and since size wasn't a significant part of the equation used in the ranking, I disagree with you.
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