Forest Park

Forest Park is an open park in western St. Louis, Missouri. It is a noticeable urban focus and covers 1,371 sections of land. Opened in 1876, over 10 years after its proposition, the recreation center has facilitated a few noteworthy occasions, including the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 and the 1904 Summer Olympics. Woodland Park has a few yearly St. Louis social or stimulation occasions, including the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, LouFest Music Festival, the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, the St. Louis Earth Day Festival, and the St. Louis African Arts Festival. The yearly St. Louis Wine Festival, Beer Heritage Festival, and St. Louis Micro-Fest additionally are facilitated in Forest Park.

Forest Park is home to five of the area's significant establishments: the St. Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Zoo, the St. Louis Science Center, the Missouri History Museum, and the Muny amphitheater. It has a few recreational offices, including the Dwight Davis Tennis Center, the Steinberg Skating Rink, the Boathouse Restaurant, the Forest Park Country Club, the Highlands Golf and Tennis Center, handball courts, and fields for softball, baseball, soccer, cricket, rugby, and arrow based weaponry. The recreation center likewise includes broad strolling and bicycling ways.

The zoo is isolated into five creature zones: the River's Edge, which incorporates elephants, cheetahs, and hyenas; The Wild, which incorporates penguins, bears, and incredible gorillas; Discovery Zone, which incorporates a petting zoo; Red Rocks, which highlights lions, tigers, and other huge felines; and the most established piece of the zoo, Historic Hill, which includes the 1904 Flight Cage, a herpetarium, and primate house.