Summer Safari Nights at Reid Park Zoo: The 24-Acre Midtown Tucson Zoo Where TMC Health Sponsors 10 Saturday-Evening Events From May 23 Through August 8, 2026, the May 30 Show Lands the Saturday After Memorial Day, and the Pathway to Asia Expansion Is Tracking Toward a Late-2026 Opening

Reid Park Zoo's Summer Safari Nights series, presented by TMC Health, runs ten Saturday evenings from May 23 through August 8, 2026, with each event open from 6 to 8 p.m. at the zoo's 3400 East Zoo Court address in midtown Tucson. The next show — Saturday, May 30 — is the first Saturday after Memorial Day weekend. Per the zoo, each weekly evening pairs animal encounters, keeper chats, and hands-on artifact stations with crafts, inflatables, Jungle Carousel rides, face painting and glitter tattoos, dinner and drinks from the Flamingo Grill, and live music in the Event Garden, organized around a different weekly theme — Bear Necessities, Beach Party, Pollinator Power, and Superheroes among them. General admission runs $12 for adults ages 15 to 61, $10 for seniors 62 and older, $8.50 for children ages 2 to 14, and free for zoo members and children under 2. Reid Park Zoo flips to its summer daytime schedule (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) effective June 1, and the $3 Tuesdays daytime promotion returns weekday mornings in June and July. The 4.5-acre Pathway to Asia expansion — the largest addition to the zoo since Expedition Tanzania in 2012 — is tracking toward a late-2026 opening with red pandas, Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons, Asian small-clawed otters, and gibbons. Here is the May 24, 2026 sourced walk-through for Tucson residents and relocation buyers weighing the metro's summer family-amenity calendar.