Historical September 1993 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Forest Park Forever reports completion of a number of recent improvements in one of our neighborhood’s greatest assets, Forest Park.
Most obvious is the resurfacing of roadways throughout the park. More than half a million dollars in funding for the projects came from the Forest Park Improvement Fund, which channels money from park leases and permits back into the park, from Round Up for Forest Park, and other organizations. Special credit is given to Anabeth Calkins, manager of Forest Park, and Daniel J. McGuire, 28th Ward Alderman, for “marshalling funds and labor for these projects” and to the Street Department for completing the repaving projects.
In addition to the paving, the Cascades were repaired with additional funding from the Mike Shanahan Golf Tournament; new high voltage cable was provided near the Dwight Davis Tennis Courts; roof repairs were made to the Jewel Box and the Fish Hatchery; a new picnic shelter was constructed on picnic grounds 45, and, with the assistance of the Central West End Association, all 8.5 miles of the bike trail were resurfaced.
In May the East Tree Walk, a 2.5 mile circuit, was opened.
This selfguided walk is a cooperative effort among the Missouri Department of Conservation, the St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry, and Forest Park Forever. Twenty-seven specimen trees and tree groupings are identified on the route which runs southwest along Wells Drive from Steinberg Skating Rink toward the Jewel Box, down McKinley Drive past the upper Muny parking lot and the Muny, over to the east end of PostDispatch Lake and then back between the bandstand and the Muny to the east side of the cricket field, the east at Confederate Drive, and “across country” back to Steinberg. (Maps are available.) Forest Park Forever will sponsor a flea market at the World’s Fair Pavilion in the Park on Saturday and Sunday, September 11 and 12 to raise funds for the Jewel Box and its grounds.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1993.
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