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- Kidding Around in St. Louis Tour
- Lewis & Clark Adventure Tour
- Historic St. Louis Tour (One to Three Days)
If you are looking for fun-filled activities to keep your youth groups of all ages entertained, look no further. St. Louis has a variety of attractions to keep tots, 'tweens and teens happy. They'll be having so much fun, they won't even notice that some of these stops are educational, too.
Day One
Start the day off with a ride to the top of the Gateway Arch. At 630 feet, the Arch is the tallest man-made monument in the country. View the current movie on the four-story screen at the Odyssey Theater and explore the history of the opening of the American West in the free Museum of Westward Expansion. Kids can even grab historically accurate snacks or toys from the Levee Mercantile, a shop that sells goodies from the past at the Arch.
Cap off the morning with a narrated Mississippi riverboat cruise one of the authentic paddlewheelers operated by Gateway Arch Riverboat Cruises. At the Old Courthouse, kids will be awed by the great architecture and inspired by the historic story of the famous Dred Scott trial that took place here.
Younger kids will be delighted to meet the Tooth Fairy at the Dental Health Theater. This museum, the only one of its kind in the world, contains 16 three-foot-high fiberglass teeth. Shows and demonstrations educate kids as well as adults on dental hygiene. Near the theatre, lunch at one of the many restaurants in historic Laclede's Landing. Located on the riverfront, this area of restored warehouses will satisfy any appetite and budget.
Sports-loving kids will have a ball at the International Bowling Museum and Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum. This dual sports museum houses mementos, trophies and videos depicting the proud 100-plus-year-old Cardinal baseball tradition along with unusual galleries celebrating the history and heroes of professional bowling. A bonus for your baby travelers: four frames of bowling on the museum's lanes; one antique and the other, ultra-modern. This stop is sure to be a hit especially with an added tour of the Cardinals' Busch Stadium roost that lets kids step on the field of dreams and sit in the big league dugout.
Youth groups can explore the unexpected at the City Museum, where they can experience 4,000 square-feet of man-made caves and tunnels, an enchanted forest with sky tunnels, a wacky and fun working shoelace factory, circus performances and much more.
At the festival marketplace within St. Louis Union Station, youngsters can see historic trains and mementos from a century of train travel, hunt for souvenirs in interesting shops, float the man-made lake in paddleboats and snack or dine in the bountiful food court. There's even a Hard Rock Café to appeal to music lovers.
Day Two
St. Louis' Forest Park is filled with kid-friendly sites including the world-famous Saint Louis Zoo, the innovative St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis Art Museum and Missouri History Museum. Bonus: general admission to all of these great attractions is always free.
The Saint Louis Zoo's newest attractions include the amazing Penguin and Puffin Coast and the underwater viewing habitat for hippos located within The River's Edge. Kids can go buggy at the insect-filled Monsanto Insectarium, make contact with soft, friendly creatures in the Children's Zoo area featuring a playground area with a slide-through otter pool.
Youngsters can learn what it's like to live and work in outer space at the Science Center's state-of-the-art Boeing Space Station in the rejuvenated James S. McDonnell Planetarium, watch an OMNIMAX big screen movie, touch a tornado or greet a life-sized dinosaur at the Science Center galleries.
Stop in the Saint Louis Art Museum to see real Egyptian mummies. Learn how kids lived in St. Louis' past at the Missouri History Museum and climb on the giant turtle sculptures in Turtle Playground.
Stop for lunch at Blueberry Hill, located in the cosmopolitan Delmar Loop. Containing the country's best jukebox, Blueberry Hill is home to one of the tastiest burgers in town. Plaques of local celebrities are on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. More than 100 St. Louis stars such as Chuck Berry and John Goodman are honored.
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