Refurbishing the 36-horse carousel, built by C. W. Parker and featuring a dozen horses produced by Stein and Goldstein, was a community project. City Park is also home to the Pueblo Zoo, a biopark. The zoo exhibits 110 different animal species in naturalistic settings. Pueblo Mountain Park borders on the San Isabel National Forest in nearby Beulah. Mineral Palace Park rates for its summertime flower displays.
Recreational offerings continue.
The Pueblo Plaza Ice Arena schedules lessons, hockey, broomball and curling around its open skating sessions. Plans are also underway to locate a semi-pro hockey team in Pueblo, playing at the Events Center. Teaming Up for Fitness Organized sports, how-to lessons and other leisure time activities fill the schedules of the city and county recreation department. From little leagues to semi-pro teams, Puebloans fill the stands at Runyon Field, Rawlings Stadium and dozens of sandlot parks nightly to watch the boys and girls of summer play. The University encourages visitors to use Massari Gym and the Sam Jones Sports Complex.