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4256 Magnolia Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110

314-771-2679

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Best Public Park
Award Winner 2010

Hours: Open.
Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining

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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.

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 »

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: May 11-13

By Mabel Suen | Fri, May 11, 2012

Friday (May 11): Food Truck Friday @ Tower Grove Park The season's first Food Truck Friday brings the the St. Louis Food Truck Association along with other vendors to Tower Grove Park for plenty of... More »
Take A Walk, Help A Cat

By Alex Weir | Thu, October 06, 2011

We've always been totally flummoxed as to why, since they're quite clearly loving and loveable creatures, but cats are still routinely mischaracterized as being aloof and unaffectionate. Their human advocates have to stand up for them more often t... More »
An Ode to the Festival of Nations

By Ian Froeb | Fri, August 26, 2011

Several years ago, not long after I moved to St. Louis and before I had this gig, I attended the International Institute of St. Louis' Festival of Nations for the first time. The summer of '04, I thin... More »
It's a Small World After All

By Alison Sieloff | Thu, August 18, 2011

Picture this: It's the weekend, maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday. You sleep in for a bit, and awake to a sunny summer day, a gentle wind blowing just enough to move the leaves. You throw on something comfortable, point your car or bike in the directio... More »
Pagans Coming to Tower Grove Park

By Melissa Meinzer | Fri, June 10, 2011

Are you an effective priestess? Do you need to bring more ritual into your daily life? How's your chant and drumming?Brush up on all that and more this weekend at the St. Louis Pagan Picnic, running S... More »

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JessicaG4 | St. Louis, MO | 101 Reviews

| Thu, July 8, 2010

just beautiful!
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emko18 | st. louis, MO | 271 Reviews

| Fri, March 12, 2010

Lots to do here! Picnic, frisbee, tennis, and more! They have great Kickball leagues in the spring and fall.

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Tower Grove Park

4256 Magnolia Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110

314-771-2679

Description

2010 | Best Public Park

2009 | Best Picnic Spot

2007 | Best Place to Bird Watch

2007 | Best Tennis Courts

2005 | Best Place to Bird-Watch

2004 | Best Picnic Spot

2003 | Best Public Park

2002 | Best Place to Shop for a Wedding Dress

2000 | Best Lily Pads

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: May 11-13

By Mabel Suen | Fri, May 11, 2012

Take A Walk, Help A Cat

By Alex Weir | Thu, October 06, 2011

An Ode to the Festival of Nations

By Ian Froeb | Fri, August 26, 2011

It's a Small World After All

By Alison Sieloff | Thu, August 18, 2011

Pagans Coming to Tower Grove Park

By Melissa Meinzer | Fri, June 10, 2011

JessicaG4 | St. Louis, MO | 101 Reviews

emko18 | st. louis, MO | 271 Reviews

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