St Louis Zoo (All Nations closing time: 5:30 pm, hours/prices )
Admission Fee: Free! (Take Note: Children’s Zoo, Stingrays Cove and Sea Lion Show are $4/person, Zooline Railroad $7.95)
Parking: $15 for zoo parking
South Parking Lot: Forest Park, 4 Wells Dr, St. Louis, MO 63139 . Directions from hotel.
Description: Voted America's top free attraction, the Zoo is located on 90 acres in beautiful Forest Park, and home to more than 603* species of animals, many of them rare and endangered. It is one of the few free zoos in the nation.
The St. Louis Zoo is 3rd best zoo in the United States, and 4th best in the world per Trip Advisor’s Traveller’s Choice Awards.
If north and south parking lots are full, can go to overflow parking near here. Costs less ($5), but is a bit longer walk to zoo. Driver could drop everybody off at zoo, then park. See more information about parking and closed roads at stlzoo.org/visit/parking-directions/ (scroll past the list of closed roads to the map).