Facts About Forest Park

Dedicated: 1876

Free

Owned by the City of St. Louis

Maintained by the City of St. Louis’ Parks Department, and the City’s Division of Parks, Recreation and Forestry in partnership with Forest Park Forever

Home to five major cultural institutions: the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Saint Louis Science Center, the Missouri History MuseumThe Muny and the Saint Louis Zoo

Location on Google Maps

Park-wide events calendar (not inclusive of all happenings in Forest Park)

1,300 acres

30 miles of paths and trails

2.5 nautical miles of waterway

190 acres of Nature Reserve

15.5 million annual visitors

47,000 trees

3 playgrounds (not including a 17-acre Nature Playscape)

Forest Park Advisory Board

Forest Park Master Plan is on this City of St. Louis website

Host of 1904 World's Fair

 
I present to you, the people of the County of St. Louis, your own, this large and beautiful Forest Park for the enjoyment of yourselves, your children and your children’s children forever . . . The rich and poor, the merchant and mechanic, the professional man and the day laborer, each with his family and lunch basket, can come here and enjoy his own . . . all without stint or hinderance . . . and there will be no notice put up, ‘Keep Off the Grass.
— THEN-PRESIDING JUDGE OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY CHAUNCY F. SHULTZ DURING FOREST PaRK'S 1876 DEDICATION CEREMONY