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Forest Park St. Louis, MO 63110

314-781-0900

http://www.stlzoo.org

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Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests
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Forest Park St. Louis MO 63110

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One of America's most popular zoos, the Saint Louis Zoo features a dazzling array of animals in modern settings, a children's zoo, Penguin and Puffin Coast, the Insectarium, the River's Edge and several other unique displays.

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Bottoms Up Blues Gang

5:00 p.m. June 28
Dirty Muggs

5:00 p.m. July 5
3 Handsome Guys

5:00 p.m. July 12
Push the Limit

5:00 p.m. July 19
Johnny Henry Band

5:00 p.m. July 26

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The Arctic Laid Bare

By Mark Fischer | Thu, February 28, 2013

In Florian Schulz's book To the Arctic, a companion to the IMAX 3-D film of the same name, readers are taken on a panoramic photo journey that digs beneath the snow and ice to reveal an ever-white winter wonderland teeming with life. Tonight at... More »
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By Alex Weir | Thu, January 24, 2013

Our Saint Louis Zoo isn't just a top-tier destination for families looking to spend an enjoyable day out among the animals; it's also a great resource for general learning and the serious consideration of pressing, real-world issues that affect... More »
The Most Adorable Picture You Will See Today

By Aimee Levitt | Thu, December 27, 2012

This is Raja the elephant. He lives at the Saint Louis Zoo with his three daughters, Jade, Maliha and Kenzi. Today's his twentieth birthday. The zoo held a birthday party in his honor this morning.... More »
Penguins After Dark

By Paul Friswold | Thu, November 15, 2012

It's uncertain who was behind the big PR push to heighten the profile of the penguin, but those little tuxedo-clad birds have never been more popular. What's not to like? The funny walk, the strong family unit, and if recent films are to be... More »
The Eight Best Places to Take Out-of-Town Guests in St. Louis

By Riverfront Times Staff | Fri, August 31, 2012

With the long weekend upon us, no doubt you've got some cheapy freeloaders crashing on your couch, looking to you for entertainment. Here are eight great diversions to while away the time, selected wh... More »
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2012 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

The San Diego Zoo may be the best-known zoo in America, but you're also going to pay $42 a head for the privilege of enjoying it. Not only is the Saint Louis Zoo as impressive as San Diego's facility, admission to our zoo is completely free. F-R-E-E. Yet despite the free-ness, the Saint Louis Zoo is constantly reinventing itself, such as the opening this summer of the fantastic Sea Lion Sound that takes you under the water with these fun-loving aquatic mammals. But, truth be told, it's the... More »
2012 | Best Zoo Animal

The folks at the Saint Louis Zoo take great pains to mimic the natural habitat of all the creatures under their stewardship, but few of the park's residents seem to do what they would be doing in the wild anyway with the gusto exhibited by the black-tailed prairie dog. Cohabitating in a band about two dozen strong, they chatter, play, forage and tumble in and out of their tunnel town as if they don't give a hoot that they're being watched. Except they do care! A study by a Washington... More »
2011 | Best Zoo Animal

Nobody messes with a hippo. Hippopotamus amphibius, the heavyweight champion of the Saint Louis Zoo's River's Edge habitat, weigh between 3,000 and 8,000 pounds, and they're always hungry. One of the most aggressive creatures in the Sub-Saharan or anywhere else, hippos can outrun the bejeezus out of the average human (up to an impressive 30 miles per hour), despite the fact that they're, you know, on the zaftig side. And while it's disquieting to imagine being sat (or chewed) upon by a... More »
2010 | Best Reason to Look Forward to Winter

We're really spoiled in St. Louis. One example: Try going to San Diego some weekend and taking in their zoo. Sure, it's a world-class institution, and half the staff has been on The Tonight Show at one point or another, but it's also going to cost you a few hundred dollars to take the family on a one-day pass that doesn't even include all the good stuff. Meanwhile, our own zoological treasure is free to the public every single day of the year. And there's no better time to appreciate the... More »
2010 | Best Local Metaphor for How the World Really Works

Beside the swimming pool in which the magnificent hippopotamuses laze about their days at the Saint Louis Zoo is a simple interactive display: Turn a crank and the tail of a cartoon hippo spins, scattering its poop among the small fish swimming around it. The point is to educate zoogoers about the food chain. The smallest fish feed on the poop and are in turn eaten by bigger fish, which are in turn eaten by even bigger fish, and so on until the biggest fish is caught by humans and becomes... More »
2010 | Best Zoo Animal

"It's Zoboomafoo!" The shouts of countless kids resound throughout the zoo's Primate House. The Coquerel's sifakas regard the scene with their perpetual wide-eyed stares -- equal parts curious, bemused and confused: who or what is this Zoboomafoo you speak of? -- and then return to the business of leaping from branch to branch. Their strong legs let these lemurs leap as far as 30 feet! Unfortunately, in their native Madagascar, sifakas can't leap far or fast enough to escape... More »
2009 | Best Zoo Animal

When it comes to favorite animals, our preferences are a bit atypical. While others seek out fave fauna that can be placed in categories such as "adorable" and "cuddly," our most-beloved are best described with such words as "anachronistic" (giant anteater, our pick for 2004), "badass" (the Ozark hellbender, 2007) and "able to challenge the theory of natural selection" (Henrietta the one-armed prairie dog, 2006). This year we're adding a consummate fake-out artist to our exalted pantheon:... More »
2009 | Best Kids' Thrill

The only thing more thrilling than the final note of Stingray Cove's ubiquitous television commercials and their ear-wrenching version of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is actually visiting the exhibit itself. Yes, their venom-coated barbs have been trimmed, and they're pretty docile creatures to begin with, but the experience of petting a ray is still, well, thrilling. More than 30 stingrays call the Saint Louis Zoo's 17,000-gallon pool home. Most are cownose rays; a few are a larger... More »
2008 | Best Zoo Animal

Sure, there were babies born to other, perhaps more cuddly animals this year. And some of those animals have funny names -- if you're of the Beavis & Butt-Head persuasion and involuntarily giggle every time you hear the word "ass." But there's only one polar bear remaining at the Saint Louis Zoo. In the wild, the polar bear is solitary by choice. But our bear has had solitude thrust upon it. Half a world from where it belongs, the lone representative of its species -- the only... More »
2007 | Best Zoo Animal

You wouldn't go in the Herpetarium if you weren't in search of a thrill. Something to make your skin crawl. When a pile of Gila monsters lying next to their own recently shed skin fails to do it for ya, try Missouri's own Ozark hellbender. The weird, primitive look of this harmless salamander elicits an eeewwww from just about everyone who passes its small tank. Its irregularly oblong shape and mottled skin mimic the stream-worn rocks where the hellbender makes its home. Only the opening and... More »
2006 | Best Place to Meet Single Men

We're totally down with the 21st century: the online personals, the Internet dating services, the LOLing. But, like, OMG -- sometimes it's downright refreshing to meet a cute guy offline. You know, in three dimensions? And there's no better time to assess the gentlemen than at Jammin' at the Zoo, the twice-annual Saint Louis Zoo event. The dude gets points for just being there -- he's putting his money toward a good cause rather than feeding the Golden Tee. Zoo-related banter allows... More »
2003 | Best Kids' Thrill

Granted, for sheer, blow-your-hair-back, end-over-end thrills, the City Museum is hard to beat. But there is one attraction here in Mound City that edges out Bob Cassilly's monument to dreck-cess for thrilling the kiddies: The venerable Zooline Railroad is a guaranteed warm fuzzy for every kid, from newborn to nonagenarian. You can skip Big Cat Country, bypass the Jungle of the Apes and dodge the sea lion feedings, but if you attempt to leave the Saint Louis Zoo without taking the nippers on... More »
2000 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Visitors to Gross Them Out

This would otherwise be a tossup between anyplace that serves biscuits and gravy or uses Provel cheese, but a visit to the St. Louis Zoo's Insectarium should rank at the top of the list. Now, we like insects (and arachnids, and gastropods) just fine, but some may find some of the exhibits disquieting. For example, a facsimile kitchen, complete with a knife smeared with faux peanut butter and studded with carpenter ants. Or the crisper drawer of a fridge -- pull it open and watch the roaches... More »

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SomeRandomDude | 394 Reviews

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| Thu, March 31, 2011

We enjoyed having a great weather kind of day. We went just before lunch and grabbed a bite while we were there. Not as expensive as most parks charge for the food. We had a very enjoyable afternoon, and still didn't get to see all the animals. Great time anyway

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Saint Louis Zoo

Forest Park St. Louis, MO 63110

314-781-0900

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5:00 p.m. June 28

5:00 p.m. July 5

5:00 p.m. July 12

5:00 p.m. July 19

5:00 p.m. July 26

By Mark Fischer | Thu, February 28, 2013

By Alex Weir | Thu, January 24, 2013

By Aimee Levitt | Thu, December 27, 2012

By Paul Friswold | Thu, November 15, 2012

By Riverfront Times Staff | Fri, August 31, 2012

2012 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

2012 | Best Zoo Animal

2011 | Best Zoo Animal

2010 | Best Reason to Look Forward to Winter

2010 | Best Local Metaphor for How the World Really Works

2010 | Best Zoo Animal

2009 | Best Zoo Animal

2009 | Best Kids' Thrill

2008 | Best Zoo Animal

2007 | Best Zoo Animal

2006 | Best Place to Meet Single Men

2003 | Best Kids' Thrill

2000 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Visitors to Gross Them Out

SomeRandomDude | 394 Reviews