Harry L. Simpson Park

2001 | Best Place To Take the Kids Fishing

How many fishhooks can be baited with a single nightcrawler? That is a question for Sunday mornings, when Valley Park Hardware with its full bait shop doesn't open until 11 a.m., leaving only the quickie-mart down the road, where 2 bucks buys a dozen crawlers. Besides a pole and a stringer (and a license for those over 16), that's all you'll need to catch the finny denizens of the 70-acre lake within this St. Louis County park. Up to 100 feet deep in parts, the lake was once a quarry... More »