Narrated Bus Tours

Full-Day and Half-Day Narrated Bus Tours are available for Senior, Community, Scout, YMCA, YWCA, Church and other Social Groups. For groups who wish it, tours are arranged so that participants can walk part of the tour and enter buildings, in addition to riding.

Time
Tours are available all year around, Monday thru Saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday from 12:00 noon until 5:00pm, weather permitting.

Cost
The minimum fee for a two-and-a-half-hour, Half-Day Tour is $50.00. Standard cost is $10.00 per adult with large group discounts available. The minimum fee for a Full-Day Tour is $100.00. Cost is $15.00 per adult with large group discounts. Rates for youth groups are available upon request.

Transportation
Groups provide or hire their own bus/coach. I will board bus and narrate tour after providing itinerary to driver ahead of time.

HALF-DAY TOURS: Half-Day Tours may be scheduled to begin at 9:00 and end at 12:00 for lunch.The cost of lunch is not included in the tour fee. Suggestions for nearby restaurants are included. Tours may also be scheduled in the afternoon so as to end by 5:00.

The Mound City - The Mississippians at St. Louis - Sugar Loaf Mound, Broadway & Market Streets & the Common Fields of Saint Louis, Mound Street & the Great Mound Complex, Cote Brilliante, the Mounds of Forest Park along the River DesPeres, The History Museum.
Lunch: Meriwether's in the Museum.

French/Creole Saint Louis - The Gateway Arch, the Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, the poteaux-en-terre house in the Old Courthouse, site of the Old Rock House & the 40 Foot Marker on Lenore K. Sullivan Drive, Claymorgan's Alley on Laclede's Landing, Cardinal Street, Chouteau's Pond, Joseph Motard's Buildings in Lafayette Square, Soulard, the Chatillon Farmhouse/DeMenil Mansion. Lunch: Cafe DeMenil.

Civil War St. Louis - St.Louis University at Grand & Lindell(site of the Massacre at Lindell's Grove), the Federal Arsenal of the West, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, the DeMenil Mansion, the Purina Tower(site of the Gratiot Street Prison),the Field Museum, Broadway & Clark Street(Lynch's slave house & the Myrtle Street Prison), the Old Courthouse, Metropolitan Square(site of the Berthold Mansion), Laclede's Landing(safe room in the cave beneath Morgan Street & Camp Ethiopia), the Mississippi River(site of the Freedom Boat), the Campbell House Museum. Lunch: The Tap Room, Macy's, Teutenberg's, The Bread Company,The Old Spaghetti Factory, Morgan Street Ale House.

Skyscrapers to Lofts - Downtown Loft District beginning with the Wainwright Building on Pine Street, up & down city streets from 5th to 15th streets as far north as the Washington Avenue Loft District.
Lunch: The Mayfair Hotel, The Dubliner, Kitchen K or McMurphy's Grill.

FULL DAY TOUR: This full-day tour crosses the city from south to north. Lunch is suggested somewhere in-between to break it up.

Haunting St.Louis - a panoramic tour of many of the most historically atmospheric sites in the City of St.Louis. Benton Park & Indian Cave, Henri Chatillon's (Creole) farmhouse, the DeMenil Mansion, the Lemp Mansion, La Belle Histoire, Dr. Arzt's Home in Soulard, Lafayette Square, the Oldest House West of the Mississippi, Broadway & Clark Street(site of Lynch's Slave House), 5th & Broadway(Chief Pontiac's Gravesite), 4th & Walnut(Battle of Fort San Carlos), the Campbell House Museum, the City Museum, the foot of the Arch Staircase on Lenore K. Sullivan Drive, site of Cafe Louie on Laclede's Landing. (Break for lunch: somewhere on Laclede's Landing.) Cherry Street & the Great Fire of 1849,The Power Plant on Front Street, Mound Street, The Clemens' House, the Bissell Mansion, the Grand Avenue Water Tower, Bellefontaine Cemetery & the gravesites of Isaiah Sellers, the Campbell Family, William Sublette, John O'Fallon, the Wainwright Tomb, Mayor David Francis, explorer William Clark & the Girl in the Glass Case & finally Calvary Cemetery & the gravesites of Louis Cella, Dr. Tom Dooley, Dred Scott, the Sherman Family, John Mullanphy, the Lucas', Auguste Chouteau & ending with the Famille Chouteau Gravesite & stone sarcophagus of Marie Chouteau, the "Mother of St. Louis".*,

* The above Full-Day Tour may be divided into two separate tours but both need to be taken in order to get the full, sweeping picture of the evolution of St. Louis as it grew up on the great bend of the Mississippi River. Although some sites appear on more than one tour different stories are told about them on each tour.

Additional Narrated Tours will become available in July of 2007.