 The Chiang Mai provincial government set aside at the base of Doi Suthep, the mountain immediately adjacent to Chiang Mai, and the facility was opened to the public in 1957.When Young died in 1974, the property was taken over by Chiang Mai Province.The zoo was expanded to its current footprint, transferred to the Zoological Park Organization under the patronage of the King of Thailand, and opened as the official zoo of Chang Mai Province in 1977.