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St Louis Riverfront Trail

The St. Louis Riverfront Trail is an 11-mile paved path that hugs the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch neighborhood northward to the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. Part of the larger Mississippi Greenway network, it offers a rare, continuous journey along a working American riverfront—past industrial levees, floodwall murals, Underground Railroad history, and finally open river vistas that few city residents ever see. Whether you're biking, jogging, or simply walking to watch barges slide up and down the river, the trail delivers a layered experience of urban history, ecology, and wide-open water views just steps from downtown St. Louis.

Gravesite of William Clark, Co-Captain of the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis

Historical landmark

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Gravesite of William Clark, Co-Captain of the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis

At the heart of Bellefontaine Cemetery in north St. Louis, a 35-foot gray granite obelisk marks the final resting place of William Clark, the explorer, soldier, and territorial governor who co-led the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific. It is one of the most significant stops on the Lewis and Clark story, and the National Park Service recognizes this gravesite as a High Potential Historic Site on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The monument is as much a sculptural monument as a headstone. A bronze bust of Clark sits on a granite pedestal before the obelisk, carved piers bearing a grizzly bear's head and a lion's head flank the stepped approach, and the stone records in detail the public life of a man who helped open the American West. For visitors interested in exploration, funerary art, or Missouri history, the gravesite rewards the walk through a cemetery that doubles as a celebrated urban arboretum.

Historical landmark

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Apotheosis of St. Louis

Towering over Art Hill in Forest Park, the Apotheosis of St. Louis is a monumental bronze equestrian statue of King Louis IX of France, the 13th-century saint for whom the city is named. Cast in 1906 from a design created for the 1904 World's Fair, it served as St. Louis's defining civic symbol for nearly six decades before the Gateway Arch took over. Today the statue stands as both a beloved landmark and a masterwork of American public sculpture, perched on a granite pedestal directly in front of the St. Louis Art Museum — a setting that makes it one of Forest Park's most photographed and recognizable sights.

Art center

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Intersect Arts Center

Intersect Arts Center is a non-profit creative hub on Texas Avenue in south St. Louis, where a public gallery, a working makers' campus and a neighbourhood youth programme share one address. Its mission—"enriching place and people through the arts"—shows in the way it mixes exhibition walls, ceramics wheels, a woodshop and dance studio under a single roof, then opens them to everyone from toddlers on field trips to professional artists renting private studios upstairs. What draws visitors is the sense that nothing here is behind velvet rope. You can wander a thoughtfully curated exhibition, watch pottery being thrown in the busy first-floor ceramics studio, drop into a free Saturday woodshop, or catch a Dovetail event where musicians, dancers and poets respond live to the show on the walls. With a 4.8 rating from its community, Intersect has become one of the city's most welcoming, hands-on art destinations.

Zoo

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Saint Louis Zoo

The Saint Louis Zoo is a 90-acre, free-admission zoo in Forest Park that draws roughly 3 million visitors a year from around the world. Home to more than 18,000 animals across 600+ species, it was voted America's best zoo by USA Today in both 2017 and 2018. Founded in 1910 from a structure saved after the 1904 World's Fair, it holds the distinction of being the first municipally supported zoo in the world. The zoo spans six distinct zones—Historic Hill, River's Edge, The Wild, Lakeside Crossing, Discovery Corner, and Red Rocks—each transporting visitors to a different ecosystem. World-class exhibits include a deep-water polar bear habitat, an open-air penguin coast, an underwater sea lion tunnel, and treetop primate trails where you walk among the canopy at eye level with monkeys and lemurs.

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