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  • Breathwork in Forest Park

    Breathwork in Forest Park

    9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. June 22 | More Dates & Times >>

    Learn breathwork from Mary Hughes Wellness. Bring a yoga mat, blanket and pillow. Sign up online at www.maryhugheswellness.com/events/.

  • 4th Annual Wings of Hope Cardboard Boat Race

    4th Annual Wings of Hope Cardboard Boat Race

    July 27

    Hope Floats, the 4th Annual Wings of Hope Cardboard Boat Race, is being held Saturday, July 27 at Forest Park Grand Basin. Register today for this ...

  • LouFest

    LouFest

    12:00 p.m. September 7 | 12:00 p.m. September 8

    w/ The Killers, Wilco, The National, Alabama Shakes, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Jim James, Local Natives, Fitz and the Tantrums, Toro Y ...

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  • 2011 | Best Fishing Hole

    To most fishermen, their favorite spot is sacred; it holds magical powers that must be protected at any cost. Anglers may pretend they're revealing their most beloved site when asked, but don't believe it: Another spot is still hidden in their minds, a spot that, once tainted by another man's reel, may never be so lucky again. Fortunately, though some may try, the nine-acre, fourteen-foot-deep Jefferson Lake is hard to hide. Located at the east end of Forest Park in the shadow of the BJC... More »

  • 2011 | Best Music Festival

    For two days in August, Forest Park's Central Field become a music fan's paradise with the arrival of LouFest. Even in its second year, the festival has generated national interest, despite its staunch commitment to local provisions. The lineup eschews quantity for quality, giving locals the same stages and set times as their touring peers. And with a more eclectic schedule in Year Two, the festival managed to land some bands our out-of-town friends will be buzzing about in the next year... More »

  • 2010 | Best Reason to Look Forward to Summer

    It's easy to get classy for less cash in the summertime, with a bevy of free shows in Forest Park. For instance, scientific studies have shown that drinking wine, eating cheese and watching Shakespeare under the stars multiplies your intellectuality by a factor of ten. That's like tweed-jacket-with-elbow-pads cultured. Meanwhile, the musicals at the Muny showcase a full pit orchestra and nationally renowned actors, singers and dancers, all for the low price of nothing, as long as you're... More »

  • 2008 | Best Place to Roller Skate

    Ahh, roller-skating. That fabled, so very California recreation of the '70s and '80s. Who among us hasn't dreamed of cruising the Santa Monica Pier with Jack, Janet and Chrissy from Three's Company? Or about joining our favorite journalist, Fletch, as he rolls his ankle boots past the beaches of LA? Alas, our town doesn't have the ocean, boardwalks and palm trees that so often accompany Hollywood's version of roller-skating. But we do have Forest Park. The urban oasis offers skaters a... More »

  • 2008 | Best View of Someplace Other Than Downtown

    You say you want to steal away to an Archless view, devoid off any steel at all -- stainless or otherwise? Here's what you do. Go to Forest Park. Then get to the parking lot just east of the Saint Louis Art Museum, directly above the site of the Shakespeare Festival. At the far end of that lot, a gravel trail will lead you through some foliage and shrubbery. You will emerge next to a Henry Moore bronze of "two people reclining." The recliners anchor a sweeping vista across Art Hill that... More »

  • 2007 | Best Place to Make Out

    What better place to work out the tongue than a memorial to Friedrich Jahn, the German-born, Metro East-residing "father of systematic physical culture"? Jahn invented tumbling clubs, a.k.a. gymnastics societies, a.k.a. "turnvereins," back in Berlin in 1811. Exactly 102 years later, the St. Louis Chapter of the North American Turnverein donated an immense sculpture capped with Jahn's moppy head to the spot in Forest Park where the German pavilion had stood during the 1904 World's Fair.... More »

  • 2006 | Best Public Park

    In some instances more is more and bigger is better. Even if the forlorn and largely unused park parcel adjacent to the BJC hospital complex should be leased and lost forever, Forest Park would continue to radiate Best-ness with lovely, leafy authority via its miles of pedestrian and bicycle paths, its extraordinary cultural institutions, its broad and various fields and facilities for sport, its secluded redoubts, its visually thrilling vistas. The park -- our park -- is 1,293 acres... More »

  • 2006 | Best Public Art

    It's a bigger sculpture than any other public zoo's; here in town it's second in size only to the Arch. Albert Paley's Animals Always has been heralded for many best, most, largest and first superlatives since its installation at Hampton Avenue and Wells Drive in late May. From afar it's hard to judge what exactly you're looking at, but a closer look reveals 60 life-size animals, including giraffes that stretch toward the sky and rhinos that graze at ground level. When you stand beneath the... More »

  • 2006 | Best Picnic Spot

    Picnics can be irritating to coordinate. There's the challenge of keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold, the matter of transport from production site to consumption site, and dealing with the invariable stressful moment when you realize you forgot the damn corkscrew. Even assuming you clear the aforementioned hurdles, all that careful planning can be for naught if you fail to choose the right picnic spot. This year we recommend Forest Park's recently created Picnic Island. First off, it... More »

  • 2006 | Best Stroll

    You've done dinner. Even a movie. But you're not done with the date. What are the options? Suffocate in a smoky bar? Not romantic. Invite him/her home? The place is a mess. How about a little nighttime stroll? Lights on the water, stars in the sky -- now that's romance. Head for Lagoon Drive, and park the car where Saint Louis (on his stately steed) can keep an eye on it. Then take your date's hand and make it a leisurely amble around the city's prettiest body of water. Pause on the... More »

  • 2004 | Best Restoration

    Do you find yourself veering off Lindell, or even Highway 40, for a leisurely drive through Forest Park? Do you look for any excuse to pass by the new fountains in the Grand Basin? Have you eaten at the Boathouse, whose outdoor tables offer the most pastoral view within the city limits? Rented one of the boats? When Forest Park Forever was created in 1986, its lofty goal of restoring the deteriorating 1,400-acre park to its former glory sounded like something out of Pollyanna. Eighteen years... More »

  • 2003 | Best Place to Jog

    If the category were Most Convenient Place to Jog, avid runners with busy schedules would respond as one: "my neighborhood" or "the park closest to my house." But if time is no object and you have no moral objection to driving somewhere for a jog, then head to Forest Park. Bike paths snake throughout the 1,300-acre park and provide a backdrop to suit your mood: wooded areas, the open areas along public golf courses, paths winding past lakes and over bridges. If architecture is what's on your... More »

  • 2002 | Best Shopping District

    Sure, there are the obvious ones: South Grand, the Loop, the Galleria and Cherokee Street. But smack-dab in the middle, and conveniently located for all, is Forest Park. The Art Museum's Museum Shop offers vast tasteful options in jewelry, art books, cards, kids' toys and even teapots, lamps and bowls. Exhibition products, many of them designed in-house, also sell fast. You loved the van Gogh exhibit? Commemorate it by drinking mocha latte from a van Gogh mug on a starry night while wearing... More »

  • 2001 | Best Place to Exercise

    You can't ask for much more, or much better, compared with the blaring Top 40 and mechanical torture devices at indoor gyms, than Forest Park. There's its 6-point-something-mile track that circles much of its perimeter, available for runners, cyclists and Rollerbladers (who tend to take up more than their share of both the path and the supply of spandex in the city). On the north side, you can avail yourself of either a slightly dilapidated par course or the picnic shelters to do your... More »

  • 2000 | Best Public Golf Course

    Talk about pressure. What course in town makes the holes in your game as plain as Forest Park's? You drive along Skinker Boulevard, as the traffic runs by, with cars full of folks watching you play. The Forest Park course was built in 1912 by the architect Robert Foulis, who also designed the courses at Glen Echo Country Club and Normandie Golf Club, among other courses. More than 100,000 golfers play the Forest Park course annually. It has a layout of 27 holes, including the Dwight D.... More »

  • 2000 | Best Place to Bird-Watch

    The ovenbird flies from Mexico in early spring, following the Mississippi River all the way to Canada. She flies by night and rests during the day. As this large warbler reaches the halfway point along her migratory flyway, she soars above the steel-and-concrete caverns of St. Louis, looking for a place to rest. Then she sees a small patch of green, about 50 acres in the southwest corner of Forest Park (a little south and west of the St. Louis Art Museum), where she lands. It is an oasis of... More »

  • 2000 | Best Duck Pond

    Murphy Lake is sheer bucolic splendor. Accessible yet secluded, it provides an ideal spot for gazing wistfully, walking leisurely or attempting to feed the beautiful wild ducks that sometimes alight but want nothing to do with you or your bread. Fuckers. The best place in town to feed ducks is only minutes away, at a series of unnamed "ponds" between Round and Murphy lakes in Forest Park. They're often marshy and usually smelly, and their banks are coated in the excrement of the birds that... More »

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    Ahh, roller-skating. That fabled, so very California recreation of the '70s and '80s. Who among us hasn't dreamed of cruising the Santa Monica Pier with Jack, Janet and Chrissy from Three's Company? Or about joining our favorite journalist, Fletch, as he rolls his ankle boots past the beaches of LA? Alas, our town doesn't have the ocean, boardwalks and palm trees that so often accompany Hollywood's version of roller-skating. But we do have Forest Park. The urban oasis offers skaters a 5.6-mile asphalt path complete with hills, flat spots and — most important for roller skaters — plenty of people to check you out as you glide by like Adonis on eight wheels.

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