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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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — The highly anticipated Saluda Skyride officially opened to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden visitors Friday, welcoming guests to travel over the Saluda River in a suspended cable car for Labor Day ...

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 — There’s a new tiger in town. Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens has just welcomed a new resident: Suci, a Sumatran tiger. Though she’s only 2 years old, she’s already made history as one of the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — One of the popular animals on exhibit at Riverbanks Zoo has passed. Susan, the Giant Pacific Octopus (GPO), has died. The favorite animal of benefactor Susan Boyd, the eight-armed ...

Visitors to Riverbanks Zoo & Garden will soon have a quicker and more photogenic way of getting back and forth between the zoo and the garden sides of the Midlands attraction separated by the Saluda ...