Tired of swings, slides and monkey bars? Take your kids to Turtle Park and watch them climb and crawl on Gamera-sized concrete turtles. The playground is located at the corner of Oakland and Tamm Ave, right across Hwy 40 (I-64 for you transplants) from the Zoo’s South parking lot. You can hike over to Forest …
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Have you ever driven by any of the old water towers in St. Louis City? Did you know you can climb inside one of them? The water tower on Grand Avenue at Reservoir Park (not far from Tower Grove Park) is open for tours twice a month. The Water Tower is open to the public …
The Children’s Garden, inside the Missouri Botanical Garden, is an awesome play space for kids of any size. If you’re not familiar with the Children’s Garden, it’s a special kid section of the Botanical Garden with slides, a cave, tree houses, a riverboat, musical flowers (really!) and a splash pad in when the weather warms …
All right, I wasn’t even going to put this one out there, but then I was listening to the radio when the on-air host was complaining about Redbox. A caller pointed out that you can get your movies for free at the library. Duh, I thought. Then the host said he didn’t even have a …
(There is no festival planned for 2019, this is a post from the archive) Every year park rangers show kids where maple sugar comes from by tapping trees in Rockwoods Reservations. The trees are tapped in sometime in January when weather conditions are just right. The 2018 Maple Sugar Festival takes place Saturday, Feb. 3, …