Plan Your Sightseeing Trips in Peoria with This List of the Top Tourist Attractions in the City

Located in Central Illinois, Peoria boasts a collection of historical and cultural attractions which include Peoria Zoo, Wildlife Prairie Park, Grand View Drive Park, Peoria Riverfront Museum, and George L. Luthy Memorial Botanical Garden.

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Top 5 tourist attractions in Peoria

1.       Peoria Zoo

Adjacent to Luthy Botanical Garden, Peoria Zoo is yet another famous tourist attraction in the city. The zoo includes animals like rhinos, tigers, tortoises, emus, and boa constrictors, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, and more.

The zoo is famous for African exhibit – however, it features several other exhibits which include an Asian Trail, a Tropics Building, and a Conservation Center.

2.       Wildlife Prairie Park

Spread across 2,000 acres, this zoological park features more than 50 species of animals, mostly native to Illinois. The most commonly spotted animals in the wildlife park include Bobcats, bison, black bears, foxes, owls, and snakes. Besides, there is an interactive butterfly habitat in the park.

Visitors can hop on the Wildlife Prairie Park Railroad and look around the entire wildlife park.

3.       Grand View Drive Park

In the year 1910, the U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, visited this place and called it “the world’s most beautiful drive.” It is a popular tourist spot where visitors love to assemble to see the woodlands, water, and historic homes belonging to Peoria neighborhood.  There are benches on which you can sit and enjoy the scenery in front of you. There are trails that make it a great spot to the people for walking, cycling and running.

4.       Peoria Riverfront Museum

It is an art and science museum which is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the city. The museum features a permanent collection of ethnographic arts, decorative arts, fine arts, folk art, etc. The museum is often visited by tourists in large groups or students from local schools. The museum provides a Riverfront Bus to let people easily commute to and from the museum.  Besides, there is a planetarium, a sculpture museum, and a theatre with a giant screen.

5.       George L. Luthy Memorial Botanical Garden

It is a 4.5-acre garden and conservatory which was founded in the year 1951. Inside, there are varieties of gardens which include perennial garden, rose garden, all-season garden, and herb garden. All these gardens feature various species of plants. Similarly, the conservatory is home to orchids and other tropical plants and seasonal displays. It is one of the best places to see in Peoria.

 

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