Celebrate 150 years of Forest Park with your Forest Park Passport.

Forest Park 5K & Kids Dash is August 16

Join the only 5K in Forest Park that sustains Forest Park!

Bring your little ones for the Kids Dash, which everyone wins. Their special route includes a loop through Pagoda Circle and through countless colorful blooms.

Presented by Centene Foundation, this 5K helps us maintain our community treasure while enjoying the views that make it the "Best City Park" in the country. Learn more and register for August 16 today!

Twilight in the Trees at the Jewel Box

Join the Young Friends of Forest Park Forever on Thursday, October 1 for a celebratory evening in support of your favorite park.  

Enjoy live music, small bites, special cocktails and mocktails at the Jewel Box.  Experience the magic of mingling with friends in this iconic space while hearing the latest updates from Forest Park Forever staff. 

 Celebrate 150 years of Forest Park with 150 of your closest friends! Purchase tickets or become a Young Friends Member.

150 Years. 150 Adventures. One Extraordinary Park

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of our beloved Park, we present the Forest Park Passport ”…for the enjoyment of yourselves, your children and your children's children…”

The Passport is an activity-based map of Forest Park with 150 things to do, seasonal challenges and prizes! Pick up a physical copy at these locations inside Forest Park.

Our urban oasis opened to "the people of St. Louis” on June 24, 1876. We are grateful to the community partners and creators who are commemorating Forest Park’s 150th anniversary while supporting our work.

Two Years of Basketball at “The Nick”

On July 9, we celebrated two years since the first basketball courts opened in the Park!

For many years, visitors requested the addition of basketball courts, and Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis were proud to open the The Nick in 2024. This project transformed an underused area of turf and asphalt into what’s become a vibrant community gathering place.

Learn more about sport courts and celebrating two years of hoops in Forest Park.

Five Years of Learning in the Nature Playscape

On June 2, 2021, the Anne O’C. Albrecht Nature Playscape opened to the delight of Forest Park explorers and nature enthusiasts of all ages. Five years later, tens of thousands of native perennials and hundreds of trees thrive, filling the area with vibrant color, providing habitat for dozens of native species and captivating visitors.

What started as a vision to encourage children to get outside and play has become that and so much more: a space for educators and students to explore, for wildlife and native plants to flourish and for all Park visitors to enjoy varied environments across all seasons.

Local Artist Brings New Art to Forest Park

Joseph Mueller, a St. Louis-based artist, will paint the public art piece on all four exterior walls of Forest Park's racquetball courts. Work is under way!

Community members requested public art during planning for the basketball courts in 2024. Responding to this input, a committee was convened in 2025 and the process to install a mural in Forest Park is underway.

Imagine Ice Skating in the Glade

Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis are proud to partner on the Glade. This community-driven project will transform Steinberg and its surrounding 22.5 acres for activity all year.

This winter, we’ll enjoy ice skating in Forest Park once again! But the ongoing construction of the Glade on the Park’s east end is so much more than a beautiful and award-winning renovation of Steinberg Rink. Designed to harmonize with existing waterways, prairies and woodlands, the Glade will offer year-round opportunities for relaxation, recreation and more.

Restoration Leads to Biodiversity

New research in Forest Park finds our long-term restoration efforts are linked to an increase in bird diversity. This shows the impact of visionaries who formed the Forest Park Master Plan 30 years ago, and all who have taken care of the Park's natural systems since!

Read or listed to what researchers with the Living Earth Collaborative at WashU discovered in Forest Park.