Tower Grove Park

An international fashion show will join the offerings at this weekend’s Festival of Nations in Tower Grove Park. Five designers will show work including contemporary designs and clothing that reflects traditional garb found in other countries.

The annual event, happening Aug. 24-25, brings thousands to Tower Grove Park for what’s known as the region’s largest multicultural gathering.

The courts will be named for Nicholas J. Booker, an 18-year-old St. Louis native who died of asthma in 2018 while playing pickup basketball during his first year at Fordham University.

The courts had been highly anticipated since St. Louisans began pushing for them in 2017. Two hundred people showed up on Oct. 20 for the unveiling of the basketball courts in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Ted Spaid has designed the region's favorite outdoor hangout spots like the St. Louis Zoo and Art Hill. Now he’s wrapping up work on St. Louis’ newest basketball courts in Tower Grove Park and Forest Park.

A stream revival project at Tower Grove Park helps people in the St. Louis region learn about the Osage Nation while keeping rain runoff from city sewers.

A new history of Tower Grove Park charts 150 years of history, through the Victorian era, segregation and the present.

Basketball cannot come soon enough to St. Louis’ largest parks.

The basketball courts in Tower Grove and Forest parks are expected to be ready by 2023.

Neighborhood parks and other green spaces and trails continue to be among the liveliest places in the region as the COVID-19 crisis continues. Great Rivers Greenway's Emma Klues and Tower Grove Park's Bill Reininger offered their insights on the increased interest in the outdoors, even as we head into winter.