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St. Louis Sample Itinerary DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS CLARK AVE. MARKET JEFFERSON ATTRACTIONS Day 1 WASHINGTON AVE. 23RD � Old Courthouse LEGEND 22ND Urgent Care � 22ND Metrolink Stop � Old Cathedral 21ST 21ST Downtown Trolley ST. LOUIS One-Way Street � Lunch: Downtown ‒ Ballpark Village AQUARIUM 20TH

THE UNION Green Space 25 � WHEEL STATION 19TH Visitor Center UNION STATION

� Dinner: The Hill 18TH 18TH Downtown Bicycle Station Blues Triangle Day 2 17TH 16TH 16TH

: , , History Museum, TRANSPORTATION GATEWAY CENTER CITY MUSEUM STIFEL 15TH Science Center THEATRE DELMAR CIVIC CENTER

� Lunch: Forest Park Area or Central West End 14TH 14TH � Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (New Cathedral) 13TH CHESTNUT M.L. KING CARR DR. LUCAS OLIVE COLE LOCUST ST. CHARLES SOLDIERSPINE � MEMORIAL

TUCKER BLVD. � MARKET

Dinner and Theatre SPRUCE WASHINGTON AVE. CONVENTION PLAZA CLARK

11TH N Day 3 THE JUDICIAL LEARNING CENTER � St. Louis Aquarium

10TH WALNUT GROCERY CULINARIA 40 � Train Shed & The Wheel

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BUSCH STADIUM COLE � Lunch: Union Station or Downtown AMERICA’S CENTER � Soldier’s Memorial 8TH MARKET CLARK

8TH & PINE

CARDINALS CONVENTION PLAZA 7TH THE DOME 7TH HALL OF FAME AT AMERICA’S CENTER � Citygarden GRATIOT CERRE NATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM

KIENER PLAZA 6TH

LUCAS OLD 15 MINS TO BROADWAY BROADWAY COURTHOUSE AIRPORT CONVENTION CENTER LUMIÉRE LINK BALLPARK What’s New & Noteworthy VILLAGE 44 4TH ECONOMY 4 SPRUCE MUSEUM

MEMORIAL DRIVE M.L. KING MEMORIAL BRIDGE LUMIÈRE

| MEMORIAL DRIVE LACLEDE’S LANDING CASINO St. Louis Aquarium stlouisunionstation.com 2ND The St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station is the next phase of OLD CATHEDRAL

development at the National Historic Landmark train station in 1ST GATEWAY ARCH N. WHARF NATIONAL PARK downtown St. Louis. Scheduled to open in late 2019, the $45 LEONOR K. SULLIVAN BLVD. GATEWAY ARCH RIVERBOAT CRUISE EADS BRIDGE million attraction will feature one-of-a-kind exhibits and tanks 55

with 1.3 million gallons of water housing thousands of aquatic 64 species from the rivers and oceans of the world. � St. Louis Aquarium: opens December 2019 Ballpark Village Phase II | ballparkvillage.com � The Wheel: opens August 2019 Construction has started on the Cardinals $260-million second � Train Shed: opens August 2019 phase expansion of Ballpark Village. It will include more than � Ropes Course: opens December 2019 500,000 square feet of residential, office, retail, restaurant, enter- � Mirror Maze: opens December 2019 tainment, and park along Clark Street. An 8-story Live! by Loews- � 125th Anniversary Celebration: September-November 2019 St. Louis hotel will open in late 2019. City Foundry STL | cityfoundrystl.com Opening early 2020, the new mixed use development includes retail space and entertainment options, including a 10-screen Upcoming Museum Exhibitions theatre complete with luxury recliners and a full-service bar and � Pompeii: The Exhibition (open until Oct. 27, 2019), restaurant. St. Louis’ first European-style Food Hall will welcome Saint Louis Science Center foodies to 20 hip chef-centric hot spots designed to celebrate � Mighty Mississippi (Nov. 2019 – April 2021), Missouri food in an industrial setting. City Foundry STL is located in the History Museum Midtown area between Downtown and the Central West End � Millet and : Van Gogh to Dali (Feb.-May neighborhood. 2020), � The St. Louis Sound (July 2021), Missouri History The Mighty Mississippi | mohistory.org The Mighty Mississippi exhibit comes to the Museum November 9, 2019-April 18, 2021, to connect guests � 1904 World’s Fair (2022), Missouri History Museum to the past, present, and future of one of the world’s greatest

rivers. el he W s ui o | L Soldiers Memorial mohistory.org/memorial t. S e The newly revitalized Soldiers Memorial Military Museum r u t reopened in 2018. The museum continues its long history of u F Live! by Loe re ws utu honoring St. Louis service members and their families by telling F their stories.

The Gateway Arch Museum | gatewayarch.com Trace the story of the Native Americans, explorers, pioneers, and rebels who made America possible. Featuring six themed exhibit areas, this newly renovated, innovative and interactive museum celebrates America’s pioneering spirit. Major St. Louis Attractions Red denotes FREE admission Adrenaline Zone/Demolition Ball Inside the Economy Museum at the Saint Louis Art Museum Anheuser-Busch Brewery Tour Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis Cardinals Ballpark Village International Photography Hall of Fame St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Bellefontaine Cemetery and Museum Saint Louis Science Center Mounds State Historic Site Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum St. Louis Union Station ‒ Grand Hall (World Heritage Site) St. Louis Union Station ‒ Train Shed The Judicial Learning Center St. Louis Walk of Fame Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis Laumeier Park St. Louis Wheel (New Cathedral) Meramec Caverns Challenger Learning Center Missouri Botanical Garden Scott Joplin House Chesterfield Sports Fusion Missouri History Museum Shrine of St. Joseph Citygarden Moto Museum Six Flags St. Louis City Museum Museum of Contemporary Religious Art Soldiers Memorial Military Museum Museum National Blues Museum Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House National Soulard Market Forest Park Old Cathedral Fabulous Old Courthouse Ted Drewes Frozen Custard Gateway Arch National Park Pole Position Raceway Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site Gateway Arch Riverboat Cruises Powell Symphony Hall Weldon Spring Site Interpretive Center Grant’s Farm World Bird Sanctuary The Griot Museum of Black History Purina Farms World Chess Hall of Fame Holocaust Museum St. Louis Aquarium World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway

l oria em M STEM in St. Louis r’s ie ld o S STEM Learning Ecosystems provide the architecture for cross-sector learning, offering all young people access to STEM-rich learning environments so they can develop important skills and engagement in science, technology, engineering and math throughout preK-16.

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m eu us Music, Dance & Theatre M e n o h p Circus Flora Powell Symphony Hall le e T circusflora.org (June) stlsymphony.org (September-May) Dance St. Louis Repertory Theatre St. Louis dancestl.org repstl.org (September-April) Fabulous Fox Theatre St. Louis Black Repertory Company fabulousfox.com (August-May) theblackrep.org (January-June) Stages St. Louis muny.org (June-August) stagesstlouis.com (May-October)

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Stifel Theatre opera-stl.org (May-June) stifeltheatre.com Services for Groups Biergarten usch r-B se eu • Group Tour Planner • Attraction & Hotel Leads nh A • Sample Itineraries • Dedicated Group Tour Website Section • Maps & Visitors Guides • Student Brochure • Escort Notes (aka Fun Facts)

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Sample Itineraries beer oot s R tz’ America’s Music Corridor Kidding Around St. Louis Fi • • • Beer, Blues & Baseball • Little Bits of St. Louis • Civil War in St. Louis • Route 66 St. Louis Style • Environmentally Friendly • St. Louis French Heritage • Heavenly St. Louis • World’s Fair • Highlights of St. Louis

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Group Dining

Downtown South Ballpark Village America’s Incredible Pizza Co. Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch (adults) The Blue Owl (Kimmswick) Blue Owl The Fountain on Locust Pasta House Co. (many locations) MX District (dine on your own) West Old Spaghetti Factory (Laclede’s Landing) Circa STL Rooster (breakfast & lunch) Dave & Buster’s Rosalita’s Cantina Pasta House Co. (many locations) Tin Roof Triumph Grill Dine on your own options: Central West End Midtown Downtown/MX District Blueberry Hill (The Loop) The Grove Favazza’s (The Hill) Soulard Fitz’s (The Loop)

Want free stuff for your group? We love our Motorcoach groups visiting St. Louis. As a thank you, Explore St. Louis presents our brand new STL Track Holly Rogers Pack program. What’s STL Track Pack? It’s simple. If your tour Leisure Travel Sales Manager Explore St. Louis overnights at a St. Louis City or County hotel, simply fill out and return 314.992.0655 the STL Track Pack form to Explore St. Louis’ Leisure Travel Sales [email protected] (LTS) team, and a track pack will be sent out to your tour company’s www.explorestlouis.com office. The STL Track Pack box will include one Build-A-Bear with a “St. Lou is Touriffic” t-shirt, one “What’s With St. Louis?” book, a St. Louis trivia questions card and giveaways for all your clients on the tour. www.explorestlouis.com/groups