Vote for Forest Park in Best City Park, Best Playground Polls
Forest Park and its Variety Wonderland Playground are each considered among the best of their kind in the country, and St. Louisans can vote every day through April 7 to tell the nation they are #1!
USA Today experts have included Forest Park as a Best City Park in their 10Best Readers' Choice Awards poll, and this year the fully accessible Variety Wonderland Playground is in the running for the Best Public Playground!
St. Louis boosters and Forest Park fans can vote for each St. Louis destination once per day. You don't need to sign in or provide any personal information to vote. Click the buttons below to cast your vote today!
Forest Park is regularly considered among the nation’s best urban parks thanks to a St. Louis success story: the innovative public-private partnership between the nonprofit conservancy Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry, who collaborate to restore, maintain and sustain Forest Park as a treasure for all to enjoy.
With over 1,300 acres and 15.5 million annual visits, maintaining this incredible space for residents and tourists alike requires tens of thousands of labor hours and millions of dollars in upkeep each year. Donors to Forest Park Forever help fund this maintenance through their generous annual and monthly giving. Variety Wonderland Playground is one of several family-centric play spaces within Forest Park and maintained by the public-private partnership with Forest Park Forever.
But it’s not only the amazing recreation, nature, playgrounds and community gatherings that make Forest Park one of a kind. It’s also home to world-class cultural institutions which each offer free admission for the community: The Saint Louis Art Museum, the Saint Louis Science Center, the Missouri History Museum, The Muny and the Saint Louis Zoo are each fixtures in the Park, and each summer St. Louis Shakespeare Festival holds a month of free performances right here in Forest Park at Shakespeare Glen.