West Coast Aquarium Visitor Guide

WEST COAST AQUARIUMS:

• Alaska Sea Life Center, Seward, Alaska

• Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, British Colombia

• Pacific Undersea Gardens, Victoria, British Colombia

• Ucluelet Aquarium, W. Vancouver Island, British Colombia

• The Whale Museum, San Juan Islands, WA

• Marine Life Center, Bellingham, WA

• Feiro Marine Life Center, Port Angeles, WA

• Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA

• Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Tacoma, WA

• Westport Aquarium, Westport, WA

• Seaside Aquarium, Seaside, OR

• Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR

• Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR (OSU)

• Oregon Undersea Gardens, Newport, OR

• Aquarium of the Bay, San Francisco, CA

• Underwater world at Pier 39, San Francisco, CA

• Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of the Sciences, San Francisco, CA

• Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA

• Heal the Bay, Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, Santa Monica, CA

• Marine Mammal Care Center, San Pedro, CA

• Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro, CA

• Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA

• Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, CA

• Sea World, San Diego, CA

Other Major Aquariums:

• New England Aquarium, Boston, MA

• New York Aquarium, New York, NY

• Adventure Aquarium, Camden, NJ

• The National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD

• North Carolina Aquariums (3 sites)

• South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston, SC

• Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA

• Florida Aquarium, Tampa Bay, FL

• Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, LA

• Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL

• Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, TN
  

• Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Pittsburgh, PA

• Great Lakes Aquarium, Duluth, MN

• Oklahoma Aquarium, Tulsa, OK

• Texas Aquariums

Other Points of Interest:

• Here’s hoping for the Maine Aquarium

• Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA

• Whale Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
  

Other Aquariums on the Pacific:

• Waikiki Aquarium, Oahu, Hawaii

• Maui Ocean Center, Maui, Hawaii
  

• Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, Shanghai, China

• Beijing Aquarium, Beijing, China

• Kaikukan Aquarium, Osaka, Japan

• Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawa, Japan
  

• Japanese Aquariums

Additional Details

Use the Reviews page to view pictures and read my experiences of visiting these aquariums.

That page will be updated periodically, as I visit more and more.

More Information?

MarineBio's List

Wikipedia's List

American Zoo & Aquariums

A Top 10 Ranking in the US

A Zoo & Aquarium Visitor Guide

(Other Lists of Aquariums on the Web)