Best Parks In St. Louis According To Me

Best Parks In St. Louis

1. #1 Best Park In St. Louis

   Tilles Park

   5/5 Rating /

   Tilles Park Takeaway. My favorite park in Saint Louis so far. Top-notch playground equipment. Splash pad, music equipment, and fields to round out the experience. Ideal for kids 3.5 and up. You can easily spend one hour plus with kids. Clean bathrooms. Plenty of parking. Adjacent walking path to the playground. Tip One: There are two Tilles Parks, so make sure you set your map to the one in Brentwood off of 64. Tip Two: Bring a tennis ball for creative ways to play and have a catch.

   

   Website 9551 Litzsinger Rd, St. Louis, MO 63124 (314) 615-4386
2. #2 Best Park In St. Louis

   Deer Creek Park

   4.9/5 Rating /

   Deer Creek Park Takeaway. The "Rocket Ship Park". Great park for three-year-olds to ten-year-olds. Themed around space with the rock ship jungle gym, space rover platform, and space shuttle rocker. Good way to spend one to two hours with the kids. Big pavilion for parties. Easy parking. Clean bathrooms. Many ball fields, including volleyball. It's worth experiencing once if you have kids in Saint Louis.

   

   Website 3200 N Laclede Station Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143 (314) 645-3600
3. #3 Best Park In St. Louis

   Tower Grove Park

   4.7/5 Rating /

   Tower Grove Park Takeaway. The "Pavillion Park". A great park for adults. Not so great for kids. Excellent 3-mile loop for walking or running. Playgrounds surprisingly meh. Haven't been, but heard the Farmer's Market is great. So many little things to see add up to a really fun experience. Baseball fields, soccer fields, and even a clay tennis court. Parking is everywhere. A park worth being the neighborhood namesake.

   

   Website 4257 Northeast Dr, St. Louis, MO 63110 (314) 771-2679
4. #4 Best Park In St. Louis

   O'Day Park

   4.6/5 Rating /

   O'Day Park Takeaway. The "Basically A Free Adventure Park Park". Incredibly high-quality apparatuses, layout, and design. Playground complete. While every apparatus is awesome, they are mostly all single-use. Limits kids' creative freedom, so they get bored quicker than you would expect, given the quality. Bring a bathing suit for the splash pad in Summer. Easy parking in a giant lot. Brand new bathrooms. Located way out west across the river in O'Fallon. Not worth the 32-minute drive from my house, but definitely worth sub ~15 minutes if you live closer.

   

   Website 1000 O'Day Park Drive, O'Fallon, MO 63368 (636) 474-2732
5. #5 Best Park In St. Louis

   Shaw Park

   4.55/5 Rating /

   Shaw Park Takeaway. The Gem of the Clayton Park Network. The Tree Top Playground rocks it, coming in with an 8.7 / 10 playground score for kids. With at least seven different slides and an innumerable number of entrances back up, it's Playground Complete. Your kids will stay busy for over an hour easily. One of the few rumble spinny slides in the area. A splash pad is available in the summer but is currently under construction.

   It is one of the best playgrounds for kids in St. Louis and one of the better parks for adults.

   There's a second, smaller playground on the west side, closer to the high school. High school sports park over there also, for baseball and softball. You'll also find the community pool with an awesome diving board within Shaw Park's borders. The tennis courts are in the southeast corner. Bathrooms spaced throughout, but they are closed over the winter. Parking in a big dedicated lot, but finding your way in can be tricky. Medium-sized pavilion with picnic tables for birthdays at both playground areas.

   

   Website 2 Topton Way, Clayton, MO 63105 nan
6. #6 Best Park In St. Louis

   Stacey Park

   4.45/5 Rating /

   Stacey Park Takeaway. My homefield park and a major reason we bought our house. Olivette's "premier" park. Has a little bit of everything - playgrounds, fields, and even a "hike". Playgound complete. Big pavilion for parties. Easy parking. Clean bathrooms. Hosts all major Olivette events and intramerial sports. It's a swiss army knife of parks that stands out for being above agerage in every category conceivable, without having a specific highlight.

   

   Website 9750 Old Bonhomme Rd, Olivette, MO 63132 (314) 993-0444
7. #7 Best Park In St. Louis

   Dennis & Judith Jones Variety Wonderland Playground

   4.4/5 Rating /

   Dennis & Judith Jones Variety Wonderland Playground Takeaway. The "Forest Park Playground". A strong playground that anchors the biggest, most famous park in St. Louis. Playground complete. Unique spinning gazebo / mary-go-round. Several solid slides. Fun main two-story playground. Small splash area. I've been coming here since before we moved to the area. Parking is easy across the street. Next to the information center with bathrooms. Small covered area for adults to sit.

   

   Website 5601-5653 Grand Dr, St. Louis, MO 63112 (314) 367-7275
8. #8 Best Park In St. Louis

   Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park

   4.35/5 Rating /

   Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park Takeaway. Spectacular playground stowed away off Spoede. A Playground Complete park that also offers a half-mile or so walking path and tennis courts. The main playground has two amazing slides, dozens of entrance vectors, and very solid time-to-reset for slide rides. Three stories high, there are hundreds of combinations to go up and down.

   Swings and a younger kids' playground complement the main playground. The park also has tennis courts that look like they have seen better days. A walking path surrounds the playground and a giant field.

   A large parking lot backs onto the playground. The bathrooms are available, but they are closed over the winter, so you have to backtrack out of the park to find one.

   

   Website 10630 Country View Dr, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (314) 432-3961
9. #9 Best Park In St. Louis

   Anne O'C, Albrecht Nature Playscape

   4.3/5 Rating /

   Anne O'C. Albrecht Nature Playscape Takeaway. St. Louis's Best Playground Without A Playground. A series of exhibits built with sand, stumps, trees, water, and grass. A place for your imagination to run wild within a defined play space. Bring friends to make it an A+ experience.

   Better in the summer when there's running water, it's Playground Complete, using only objects and concepts you'd find in nature. Relatively unknown in the middle of Forest Park, you should add the Playscape to your park itinerary.

   There are year-round bathrooms and picnic tables available. Parking can be tight in the lot, but it's available on the street. It's Forest Park's hidden gem.

   

   Website Concourse Dr, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States nan
10. #10 Best Park In St. Louis

    Francis Park

    4.25/5 Rating /

    Francis Park Takeaway. The "South City Place To Be Park". A great all-around park with things to do for people of all ages. From playgrounds to beer gardens to real gardens and everything in between. Doesn't excel in anything, but above average in everything. Home to pickleball, racquetball, and tennis courts. Solid set of walking paths bisects the half-mile-long park. Easy parking around the perimeter. Bathrooms at the playground and beer garden.

    

    Website Eichelberger St and Donovan Ave, St. Louis, MO 63109 (314) 622-4800
11. #11 Best Park In St. Louis

    Lindenwood Park

    4.25/5 Rating /

    Lindenwood Park Takeaway. A Lovely Little Working Class Park. Everything you could want in a neighborhood park. Playground Complete. The playground will keep your kids busy for an hour. Locking in a 7 / 10 score. Tennis courts, a skating rink, baseball fields, soccer field space, playgrounds, and paved walking trails. Checks every mark without being a standout in any. A

    I really like this park. It's one of the best parks in St. Louis.

    Better for adults with a very, very respectable 7.8 / 10. It's not as fancy as big names like Tower Grove or Lafayette Park, but still extremely functional. All walking paths lead to the gazebo, bathrooms, and pavilion with picnic tables in the center of the park. It's the only park I've been to in the area with a full-blown roller rink. They keep the bathrooms locked in the winter.

    

    Website 3716 Jamieson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63109 (314) 289-5300
12. #12 Best Park In St. Louis

    Lafayette Park

    4.2/5 Rating /

    Lafayette Park Takeaway. The "Old Person Park". Great park for adults, not so much three-year-olds to ten-year-olds. One of the oldest parks west of the Mississippi, dedicated in 1851. Playground is not Playground Complete. Features unique 20-30ft climbing net. Fantastic walking paths around the park reminiscent of Tower Grove Park. Highlights include a central pond, a walking bridge, and historical pavilions and buildings. Parking is easy around the perimeter at a 45-degree angle. Bathrooms were closed when we were there in early November. Note: The playground looked to be going under renovations soon, so could be better soon.

    

    Website 2023 Lafayette Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104 (314) 289-5300
13. #13 Best Park In St. Louis

    Creve Coeur Lake Park

    4.05/5 Rating /

    Creve Coeur Lake Park Takeaway. The "Twisty Green Slide Park." Super diverse park with things to do for any and everyone. Playground complete. Two-story twisty slide and splash pad anchor the playground. Plenty of small additional features to keep kids busy. Awesome hiking around the park will be the subject of future review. Additional amenities include ropes course, disc golf, and the lake. Plenty of parking. Bathrooms around, but not always convenient. Tip: Finding the playground can be hard, so make sure to enter it into your GPS correctly. Always turn right.

    

    Website 13236 Streetcar Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043 nan
14. #14 Best Park In St. Louis

    Lewis Park

    3.9/5 Rating /

    Lewis Park Takeaway. The "Big Pond Park". Small, community-based park. Some of the best sledding in town. Two playgrounds with basic slides. One for older kids. One for longer kids. Not "Playground Complete," I don't think your kids will make it an hour. Standard swing set. Kids like to run around in the woods and fields. Parking is inconvenient at best and difficult when sledding. The biking frog in the bog is baller. No pavilion. No bathrooms except for the woods, which we've used a lot. Tip: Be careful with younger kids near the pond.

    

    Website 7001 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63130 (314) 505-8620
15. #15 Best Park In St. Louis

    Villa Park

    3.8/5 Rating /

    Villa Park Takeaway. Villa is the middle child of Olivette's three southern parks. Post renovation, it's the best playground for older kids. Features a splash pad. A great neighborhood park, it lacks all of the amenities and size of Stacey Park down the road. Dedicated parking. Standard park bathrooms. Pavilion with picnic tables for lunch or parties. Playground complete - can keep kids busy for at least an hour. Tip: Watch out for blackberries at the base of the crow's nest slide.

    

    Website 9301 Villa Ave W, Olivette, MO 63132 (314) 991-1249
16. #16 Best Park In St. Louis

    Turtle Playground

    3.75/5 Rating /

    Turtle Playground Takeaway. The Turtle Themed Playground. Fun in concept, not that great in person. Four different types of turtle statues is four ways to play. They're literally hard and unforgiving, so need to be careful sliding down. Better for slightly older kids. A true playground is a three-minute walk up the street to the east.

    Parking in a dedicated lot. The park backs onto the highway, so it's loud. Make sure to check detections and don't blindly trust Google Maps, as it tried to lead us onto the highway.

    

    Website Oakland Ave at, 6128 Tamm Ave, St. Louis, MO 63139 (314) 367-7275
17. #17 Best Park In St. Louis

    Berra Park

    3.7/5 Rating /

    Berra Park Takeaway. The park that made me pivot. It's where my friends helped me decide to get in shape and start this blog. Not particularly interesting, shiny, or different, but quality equipment. Located in The Hill across from Gioia's and Gian-Tony's. Parking is easy all around the park. Not playground complete. Comes with a statue of Midge Berra.

    

    Website 1825 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 (314) 289-5300