The One Enchanting Place In St. Louis That Must Go On Your Bucket List Immediately
By Nikki Rhoades|Published February 07, 2018
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Nikki Rhoades
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Nikki is a lifelong Ohioan with a love for literature. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Akron and has enjoyed publishing her written work since 2007. She has a love of travel and does so frequently, though she believes that home is where the heart is — she continues to work in and around Cleveland as a digital content specialist to this day, working on everything from commercial scripts and social media posts to grassroots marketing initiatives.
The Gateway City is gorgeous in every season, and it offers a landscape that is unlike anywhere else in the world. From our architecture to our parks, the raw, uncontained beauty of this city spills out over its streets. One of the most spectacular attractions in the region is a sculpture park, and you have to see its iconic beauty in person to understand.
Welcome to Citygarden, located in St. Louis' Gateway Mall.
On bright spring mornings and chilly autumn afternoons alike, the sculptures across this urban landscape will awaken in you a particularly elevated curiosity and thirst for adventure.
Lights glowing in a multitude of colors transform the nighttime cityscape. Statues and fountains are illuminated in the most entrancing way, so be prepared to be mesmerized.
You can enter the park from all directions, so go ahead and wander into its center and look around. To the north you'll see a limestone wall that is representative of the Mississippi River bluffs. The rain gardens represent floodplains, and you may even spot the region's waterways mapped out in the form of a meandering wall.
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The walkways themselves are even part of a map— they represent alleyways that garden architects spotted in a 1916 Sanborn map.
The urban wonderland that is Citygarden is unlike any place in the nation, and it’s attracted a great deal of attention to Downtown St. Louis since its grand opening. Do you remember what you thought when the sculpture garden first opened? Do you have a favorite feature in this one-of-a-kind park? Tell us in the comments!
