Downtown St. Louis is the central business district of St. Louis, running from Tucker Boulevard east to the river front under the Gateway Arch.Where to stay →
Lafayette Square rings Lafayette Park in St. Louis, the city's oldest public park, with Chouteau Avenue to the north and Interstate 44 to the south.Where to stay →
Central West End is the St. Louis neighbourhood reaching from Midtown's western edge to Union Boulevard, bordering Forest Park and its free museums.Where to stay →
Dutchtown is a St. Louis neighborhood named from Deutsch for its German settlers, with St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church towering over it.Where to stay →
Old North St. Louis is a neighbourhood of nineteenth-century brick houses and community gardens just north of downtown, the home of Crown Candy Kitchen.Where to stay →
JeffVanderLou is a neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri, drawn between North Jefferson Avenue, North Vandeventer Avenue and Delmar Boulevard.Where to stay →
St. Louis Hills covers the southwest corner of St. Louis between Chippewa Street and Gravois Avenue, with Ted Drewes Frozen Custard on its Chippewa edge.Where to stay →
Terra cotta and brick face the old garment warehouses of the Washington Avenue Historic District, a loft quarter inside Downtown West in St. Louis.Where to stay →
Brick and frame houses with tended porches line O'Fallon, a residential neighborhood on the north side of St. Louis below O'Fallon Park.Where to stay →
Brick houses run in long ranks through Lindenwood Park, a neighbourhood between Hampton Avenue and the River Des Peres at the western edge of St. Louis.Where to stay →
DeBaliviere Place is a St. Louis neighbourhood of gated private streets north of Forest Park, where a clock tower guards the Washington Terrace gate.Where to stay →
Brick Tudor gables face the landscaped medians of Holly Hills Boulevard in Holly Hills, a residential quarter of south St. Louis platted in 1923.Where to stay →
Church fronts break the house rows of Vandeventer, a neighbourhood of St. Louis between Delmar Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.Where to stay →
Civil War-era stone houses stand in Patch, the southern tip of Carondelet where St. Louis ends at the Mississippi River and the county line.Where to stay →
Compton Heights holds high ground east of South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, its curving streets laid out in 1889 below the Compton Hill Water Tower.Where to stay →
A stone house of about 1830 stands on Maple Place in West End, a neighbourhood on the western edge of St. Louis, at the city line with University City.Where to stay →
Arts and Crafts masonry lines the grid off Gardenville Avenue in Princeton Heights, a south St. Louis neighborhood platted on former farm ground.Where to stay →
Cheltenham was mined for fire clay before the Forest Park Highlands and the St. Louis Arena rose on it, a neighbourhood in western St. Louis, Missouri.Where to stay →
Brick and stone bungalows line Devonshire Avenue in Southampton, a southwest St. Louis neighborhood whose shops gather along Macklind Avenue.Where to stay →
Streetcar tracks once ran to the city limit at Wells/Goodfellow, a neighbourhood on the north-west side of St. Louis edged by Natural Bridge Avenue.Where to stay →
A square church tower, crenellated in limestone, rises over Enright Avenue at the western edge of Academy. The quarter is residential North St.Where to stay →
Red brick under a slate roof marks the 1909 Walnut Park School in Walnut Park East, a working-class neighbourhood of northwest St. Louis, Missouri.Where to stay →
Dark brick and limestone walk-ups line DeMun Avenue in DeMun, a 1920s apartment neighborhood straddling the St. Louis and Clayton city limits in Missouri.Where to stay →
Curving streets ring a lake and a playground in Clifton Heights, a hillside neighbourhood of St. Louis between Hampton Avenue and Interstate 44.Where to stay →
Brick storefronts line Cherokee Street in Benton Park West, a streetcar suburb of St. Louis held between Gravois Avenue and Jefferson Avenue.Where to stay →
Mark Twain fills a wedge of northwest St. Louis between Emerson Avenue and Interstate 70, with Bellefontaine Cemetery across West Florissant Avenue.Where to stay →
Fox Park is a St. Louis neighborhood of brick two-family houses and corner storefronts, wrapped around its own park off Shenandoah Avenue.Where to stay →
Marine Villa is a brick district of St. Louis on the Mississippi River bluffs, edged north by Cherokee Street's Antique Row and south by Gasconade Street.Where to stay →
The brick Shelley House stands on Labadie Avenue in the Greater Ville, a north St. Louis neighbourhood wrapped around three sides of The Ville.Where to stay →
St. Louis Place is a north St. Louis neighborhood of brick Victorian streets around St. Louis Place Park, the first linear park the city laid out.Where to stay →
Penrose is a residential district on the north side of St. Louis, held between Kingshighway Boulevard and Pope Avenue just south of Interstate 70.Where to stay →
Kingshighway Boulevard cuts through Southwest Garden, a St. Louis neighbourhood of red brick flats named for the Missouri Botanical Garden to its east.Where to stay →
Tilles Park keeps 29 acres of open ground in North Hampton, a residential quarter of St. Louis edged by the old auto row on South Kingshighway.Where to stay →
An oval park off Fountain Avenue names Fountain Park, a St. Louis neighbourhood laid out in 1857 and holding a bronze Martin Luther King Jr. since 1978.Where to stay →
Franz Park is a Dogtown neighborhood of St. Louis between Dale Avenue and Manchester Avenue, built up by the families who worked its clay and brickworks.Where to stay →
A Byzantine Revival dome stands over 225 South Skinker Boulevard in Wydown/Skinker, a St. Louis neighbourhood of tall flats facing Forest Park.Where to stay →
Red brick rowhouses line the short streets of LaSalle Park, a St. Louis quarter drawn out of Soulard and sealed on the southeast by Interstate 55.Where to stay →
Columbus Square is a St. Louis neighborhood north of downtown, where the Shrine of St. Joseph and rebuilt public housing share a short street grid.Where to stay →
Riverview is the far northern tip of St. Louis, a river panhandle on Riverview Drive where the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge crosses to Illinois.Where to stay →
Boulevard Heights runs south to the concrete channel of the River des Peres, a corner of St. Louis built out mostly after the Second World War.Where to stay →
Ellendale drops into the valley the River des Peres cut, a residential neighbourhood at the western edge of St. Louis holding Scullin Steel's old ground.Where to stay →
Mount Pleasant slopes to the Mississippi River in south St. Louis, holding Sugarloaf Mound, the last intact Native American mound inside the city.Where to stay →
Brick two- and four-family flats line Hamilton Avenue in Hamilton Heights, a district on the north side of St. Louis, edged south by Page Boulevard.Where to stay →
Brick two-family flats line the grid at Fairground, a north St. Louis neighborhood named for the fairgrounds that ran beside it until 1902.Where to stay →
Goodfellow Boulevard threads the length of Walnut Park West, a house-lined wedge at the northwest corner of St. Louis, hard against the county line.Where to stay →
Gated entrances on Skinker Boulevard open onto Parkview, a private subdivision of 255 houses whose curving streets are split between St.Where to stay →
Kingsway West is a north-side St. Louis neighborhood, a brick grid boxed in by Union Boulevard, Natural Bridge Avenue and North Kingshighway.Where to stay →
St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District surrounds the first Bohemian parish founded in the United States, in the Soulard neighbourhood of St. Louis.Where to stay →
Freight cars stand along Hall Street in North Riverfront, an industrial quarter of north St. Louis where the Wabash Railroad opened Luther Yard in 1890.Where to stay →
A stone gate on North Taylor Avenue guards the one way into Lewis Place, the St. Louis private street that voted down its own racial covenant.Where to stay →
Kingsway East is a north St. Louis neighborhood of brick bungalows between Kingshighway Boulevard and Marcus Avenue, with W. C. Handy Park inside.Where to stay →
Interstate 70 runs the north edge of Mark Twain/I-70 Industrial, a warehouse quarter of northwest St. Louis, Missouri, off the Goodfellow Boulevard exit.Where to stay →
Clayton-Tamm is the Irish neighborhood of Dogtown in St. Louis, lying just south of Forest Park, where the March parade runs down Tamm Avenue.Where to stay →
About St. Louis
St. Louis is known first for the Gateway Arch.
What is St. Louis known for?
The monument defines it. Standing on the riverbank where the settlement began, the stainless curve marks the old jumping-off point for the westward routes and remains the tallest built monument in the country. Below and around it, the city keeps a dense run of museums: the City Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts among them.
Music and rivers fill out the name.
What are the main landmarks in St. Louis?
The main landmarks of St. Louis begin at the Gateway Arch. Its stainless curve rises over the riverfront lawn where the city was founded, framing the Mississippi so completely that the whole downtown reads outward from that single span above the water. The Catholic Basilica of St. Louis, King of France stands inland as the oldest church.
The City Museum and the green Citygarden round out the core.
What is the history of St. Louis?
St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French traders on the bank of the Mississippi. The Catholic Basilica of St. Louis, King of France stands from that first Catholic parish, and the old French core grew into a fur-trade town near the meeting of the great rivers. The settlement passed to the United States and became the launching point for the routes west.
Trade made it rich. Steamboats and then railroads carried the wealth. The mansions of the merchant class rose across the growing city, and the Campbell House Museum keeps one such fur-trade fortune while the Eugene Field House recalls the writer's family.
Ragtime was born here. The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site preserves the composer's rooms. In the twentieth century the Gateway Arch was raised on the riverfront to mark the city's role in the westward expansion, and it became the tallest built monument in the land.
From a French landing to Missouri's second city, St. Louis kept its face to the water.
Where is St. Louis?
St. Louis sits on the west bank of the Mississippi in Missouri, near its confluence with the Missouri River. The riverfront is low and flat. Bluffs and rolling upland rise behind the levee, where the Gateway Arch marks the old landing and the downtown grid climbs away from the water.
The two great rivers meet just above the city.
What is the climate of St. Louis?
St. Louis has a temperate continental climate with sharp seasons. Summers turn hot and humid over the river valley, with storms building on the warmest days as moisture rides up from the south. The cold settles in over winter.
Snow and ice arrive most years, and spring and autumn bring the mild, shifting weather of the mid-continent between the two extremes.
How do you get to St. Louis?
St. Louis is reached by air, road, rail, and river. An international airport serves the metro to the northwest, and interstate highways bridge the Mississippi into Illinois to the east. Trains still call downtown near the Gateway Arch.
Barge traffic works the river below the levee, on the same water that carried the fur trade that founded the city.
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