1. St. Louis County Department Of Parks And Recreation
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (314) 615-5000
Address: 41 South Central
Description: Each year more than 12 million people visit the 63 parks and nearly 13,000 acres of parkland maintained by St. Louis County Parks and Recreation. There are a number of leisure and recreational facilities for all ages, in addition to “theme parks” where visitors can roam through historic areas and even an animal-farm zoo. Three regional family recreation complexes feature indoor ice-skating rinks, an outdoor Olympic-size pool, and a variety of creative playgrounds.
2. Tropicana Lanes
City: Clayton, MO
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (314) 781-0282
Address: 7960 Clayton Road
Description: Tropicana Lanes is regularly voted the area’s best bowling alley in local publications’ readers’ polls, and with good reason. This is one big alley—there are 52 lanes—so there’s usually not a wait for a lane, even on weekends. The casual, old school attitude and ambience attracts a diverse cross-section of the local population. There are lots of leagues bowling here throughout the week, and there are extended weekend hours to accommodate late-night bowlers.