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4256 Magnolia Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110

314-771-2679 

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4256 Magnolia Ave. St. Louis MO 63110

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Henry Shaw gave the citizens of St. Louis the grand pleasure park, known as Tower Grove Park, in 1868. The park is home to softball, soccer, tennis, corkball and frisbee games, as well as to the strollers, joggers and picnickers who revel in the fanciful Victorian pavilions and sculptures Shaw commissioned -- and in the more than 8,000 trees and shrubs he imported from around the world.








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  • The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 10 to 12

    The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 10 to 12

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, May 10, 2013

    We hope you're thirsty this weekend. Read on for ways to quench that drinking curiosity with a wine festival, wine walk, beer-lesque, and bloody mary bar. Besides that, plenty of other drinking and di... More »

  • Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Oct. 12-14

    Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Oct. 12-14

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, October 12, 2012

    Friday (Oct. 12): Food Truck Friday @ Tower Grove Park Head to the park (before doing so requires a parka) for the last major food truck fest of the year. Nibble on quick fixes from Papa Tom's Fancy... More »

  • Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Sept. 14-16

    Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: Sept. 14-16

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, September 14, 2012

    Friday (Sept. 14): Food Truck Friday @ Tower Grove Park Guerilla Street Food, Holy Crepe, Hot Aztec and Completely Sauced are but a few of the options available during this monthly mobile meal event... More »

  • Festival of Nations

    Festival of Nations

    By Josh Levi | Thu, August 23, 2012

    Mirrored by the sentiment of the 1904 World’s Fair, St. Louis remains home to a growing population whose national heritage expands to all far reaches of the Earth. Since its establishment in 2000, the Festival of Nations has grown to be one of... More »

  • Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: August 10-12

    Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: August 10-12

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, August 10, 2012

    Friday (Aug. 10): Food Truck Friday @ southwest side of Tower Grove Park Grab eats from Guerilla Street Food, Le Food Truck, recent Cupcake Wars winners The Sweet Divine and many more during this mo... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Place to Jog

    Hard to believe that when Henry Shaw donated the 277 acres that is now Tower Grove Park to St. Louis, the land was mostly treeless prairie. Shaw himself set about planting thousands of trees in the park and several of them still stand amid the thousands (7,500 at last count) that have sprouted up in the ensuing 150 years. Those trees provide the perfect canopy for joggers. Even if it's mid-afternoon on a 108-degree July day, there's always broad expanses of cool shade to be found along the... More »

  • 2010 | Best Public Park

    Last winter a coyote came to live in St. Louis and set up residence in Tower Grove Park. Who can blame him, really? Although winter is perhaps not the best time of year to appreciate Tower Grove's natural beauty, there's plenty else to admire: the Victorian-era pavilions built to look as though they were transplanted from far-off lands, the fake ruins beside the lily pond constructed from actual ruins of the old Lindell Hotel (it was destroyed in a fire, and if the coyote looked closely, he... More »

  • 2009 | Best Picnic Spot

    Tower Grove Park's calendar of events reads like a picnic protocol, so it's best to check it in late spring and plan your summer accordingly. Uncork a bottle of wine from your basket on Monday evenings by the Music Pavilion during the Compton Heights Concert Band series, where you'll be regaled for free by the unfailingly unique featured artists -- who in the past have included a "World Champion" whistler and an Icelandic opera singer -- accompanied by the CHCB. Afterward join the... More »

  • 2007 | Best Place to Bird Watch

    Spring and fall bring large numbers of migrating birds -- and bird watchers -- to Tower Grove Park. The park, which has a long history as a migratory-bird "trap," offers several prime locations for viewing, but local birders say the Robert and Martha Gaddy Wild Bird Garden in the northwest corner tops the list. A mulch-covered path runs from the park's ring road past a thicket of bushes and trees. Follow the path to a clearing shaded by a grove of tall trees. At the center of the... More »

  • 2007 | Best Tennis Courts

    While TV viewers flock to golf, NASCAR and (c'mon!) poker, tennis gets very little respect in the U.S. Still, people actually do play tennis in St. Louis. A few more in west county than in south city, to be sure -- all the more reason to get your racquet on at Tower Grove Park. With day passes available for $4 per person ($6 if there are two of you), Tower Grove's twelve hard courts and three grass courts represent a bargain. With apologies to last year's Best Local Boy Made Good Dan... More »

  • 2005 | Best Place to Bird-Watch

    If you think good bird-watching requires long hikes into mosquito-infested forests, you've never been to the Robert and Martha Gaddy Wild Bird Garden in Tower Grove Park. "St. Louis is a great place for birding because of the Mississippi River -- a natural flyway for migratory birds," confirms Denise Kirkpatrick, owner of a Wild Bird Center franchise in south county. One of the best spots for birdwatching, says Kirkpatrick, can be found in the heart of the city, in Tower Grover Park. During... More »

  • 2004 | Best Picnic Spot

    An amazing aged Gouda has just arrived from the Cheese of the Month Club and you're dying to devour it with a glass or three of Champagne. Okay, okay. You're trying to get rid of leftovers and it's a beautiful day outside. Es macht nichts.You'll find no better picnic spot than Tower Grove Park, which stretches from Grand Boulevard to Kingshighway in south St. Louis. Spread out a blanket beneath one of the 8,000 imported trees and shrubs. Or grab a picnic table in one of the elaborate and... More »

  • 2003 | Best Public Park

    In the words of an original park report, Tower Grove Park's thoroughfares were designed for "the costly chariot flashing with silver and polish, and also for the humble wagon with its painted sign indicating its daily use." Diverse groups are still served by the south St. Louis pleasure ground more than 100 years later. For toddlers, a lifeguard-monitored wading pool; for eccentric sporties, three corkball fields; for Anglophiles, the only public grass tennis courts in the Midwest; and for... More »

  • 2002 | Best Place to Shop for a Wedding Dress

    If ever you are waltzing through Tower Grove Park on a Saturday afternoon, you may happen upon a curious vision. As you walk amid the flora, fauna and din of parties and picnics, soundtracked by the soulful bleating of car stereos -- hark!, what white through yonder limos breaks? It's a wedding-photo shoot ... no, two ... now four ... now five. Although it may seem that you've stumbled upon the set of some Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, you're not hallucinating. Every Saturday, weather... More »

  • 2000 | Best Lily Pads

    If aquarium algae is the last water plant with which you were intimate, the wacky lily pads in Tower Grove Park will be a revelation. Situated in the most absurd, overly civilized corner of the park (nearby points of interest include an antique bandstand surrounded by busts of grumpy classical composers and a manmade pond festooned with phony classical "ruins"), three small but meticulously landscaped lily ponds complete an Arcadian fantasy of the first order. Even if yours is not a lyric... More »

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