Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Trout River Plaza

The Trout River Plaza at the Jacksonville Zoo is home to a center courtyard fountain. Zoo visitors can interact with the water cascading from the bowl fountain.

Interactive Bowl Fountain

Delta Fountains provided water quality equipment inside the fountain system to allow for zoo visitors to interact with the cascading water.

Bronze Figures Within The Fountain

Several bronze wildlife figures sit just above the water's surface within the bowl.

Cascading Bowl Fountain

The fountain was designed to have a sheet-like cascading water stream from the bowl of the fountain to the plaza's dry deck.

Jacksonville Zoo

Jacksonville, FL


  • Date2007
  • ClientJacksonville Zoo and Gardens
  • Categories
  • DesignDelta Fountains (manufacturer and mechanical)

The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens’ fountain is a whimsical stationary bowl feature that sits in the center of the Trout River Plaza. The Plaza is a resting place for zoo visitors to sit, eat, or visit one of the shops surrounding the plaza courtyard. In the warmer months children play within the fountain’s cascading water. During the holiday season, the staff decorates the plaza surrounding the fountain with lights and ornaments. The Bowl feature is kept on during these nights to reflect the lights and create a Florida-style winter wonderland.

About The Jacksonville Zoo Fountain

The bowl fountain at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardensfountain is a bronze feature with wildlife statues that sit inside the bowl. When the bowl is full, a largeĀ  bronze native bird sits in the middle of the fountain and several schools of fish lay along the water’s surface near the edge of the bowl. Water flows over the edge of the bowl to a trough hidden below the courtyard’s dry deck through a grate. Delta Fountains provided all the equipment for this water feature and manufactured the metal and fiberglass necessary for the hidden trough and vaults.

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