There are two different kinds of group tours that you can join: Second Saturday Walking Tours which occur on the 2nd Saturday of each month (weather permitting) and Narrated Coach Tours with specific themes that are offered every few months.

You will find descriptions of these tours below.

To find dates for upcoming public sign-up tours, click the calendar page on the right. To sign up, simply phone me at 314-368-8818 or e-mail me at maureen@stlouiswalkingtours.com.

—Maureen

1. SECOND SATURDAY WALKING TOURS

These Two-and-a-Half-Hour Walking Tours are offered the 2nd Saturday of each month, March thru December, weather permitting, at the reduced rate of $10.00 per person. They begin at 9:30 and end at 12:00 noon. Click the calendar page on the right for specific dates and areas of downtown to be covered.

Washington Avenue
This tour begins outside The London Tea Room at 16th & Washington, and ends at Kitchen K/The Merchandise Mart Loft Building. It covers the French Colonial period onward but highlights the current Downtown Renaissance and includes:

The Monogram Building The Garment District The Campbell House Museum The Ely Walker Lofts The Shell Building Missouri Park Central Library Building The City Museum Terra Cotta Lofts Christ Church Cathedral

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Skyscraper Central
This tour begins outside Starbucks at 6th & Olive and ends at Schnucks Culinaria at 9th & Olive focussing on the many and varied skyscrapers around Post Office Square including:

Metropolitan Square Renaissance Hotel Complex Railway Exchange Building Lammert Building Arcade and Paul Brown Buildings Old Post Office The Frisco Building Chemical Bank Building Bell/ATT Complex The Wainwright Building

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Walking the Colonial Village
This tour begins below the left side of the Arch staircase, on the levee, close to the river and ends at Panera's at 6th & Pine and includes a virtual exploration of the French Colonial Village of Saint Louis circa 1804.

The Old Cathedral Front Street Rue D’Eglise The Street of Barns La Place The St. Louis Mounds Fort San Carlos The Common Fields The Old Courthouse Pontiac’s Burial Site

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Market Street Sculpture Walk
This Sculpture Walk begins in Aloe Plaza across Market Street from Union Station with the Milles Fountain and ends at the southeast corner of City Garden focussing on public works of art and building details. It includes:

"The Meeting of the Waters" (Milles Fountain) Statue of Ulysses S. Grant The Winged Steeds of Soldiers Memorial Kiel’s Bears and Masks Twain Civil Courts’ Sphynxes The Court of Honor Statue of Pierre Laclede Ernest Trova Sculptures City Garden Sculpture Park

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2. SIGN-UP NARRATED COACH TOURS

All of these tours are full-day, five-to-five-and-a-half-hour tours that include an hour break for lunch. (They may be divided into half-day tours for private groups.)

Click the calendar page on the right for specific dates and the tour offered on each. Because of the requirements for my renting a coach, reservations for these tours must be received no later than 30 days before the scheduled tour date.

French Colonial Saint Louis
This tour covers the broad geographic parameters of the Colonial Village of Saint Louis from Sugar Loaf Mound in the south to Mound Street in the north, from the Mississippi River in the east to beyond Grand Avenue in the west and St. Louis history from 1764 to 1804 when Lewis & Clark arrived to witness the transfer of power from Spain to the United States of America. It includes such sites as Sugar Loaf Mound, the Peoria Indian Village, Joseph Motard’s outbuilding on McKay Place, the Common Fields of Saint Louis, and the Old Courthouse.

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Civil War St. Louis
St. Louis was as hotly divided as any city in the United States in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. It would prove critical to the survival of the Union in the War Between the States. This tour tells the stories of that dramatic era and includes sites such as the Federal Arsenal of the West, the Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion, the Gratiot Street Prison, the Massacre at Lindell’s Grove, the Sculpture of Ulysses S. Grant in Washington Square, The Old Post Office, and the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park.

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The Great Cyclone of 1896
This tour retraces the deadly path taken by proportionately the 4th most destructive tornado in U.S. history from the highest point in the City of St. Louis (where it began) to the Eads Bridge (300 feet of which it demolished) before laying waste to East St. Louis, Illinois. The tour includes such areas as The Hill, Tower Grove Park, Compton Heights, Lafayette Square, Soulard, and the St. Louis Riverfront.

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Downtown Renaissance
From renovated warehouses and townhouses to landscaped city gardens downtown St. Louis has become a world model of Urban Renaissance. This tour includes numerous sites as well as a visit to a loft, the Campbell House Museum, the Old Post Office, and a stroll through Citygarden.

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Haunting St. Louis
The perfect October tour, Haunting St. Louis is historically atmospheric any time of year including as it does such sites as Indian Cave, The Lemp Mansion, Lafayette Park, The Campbell House Museum, the Old Busch Stadium, St. Louis University’s Verhagen Hall, Bellefontaine Cemetery, and Hortense Place in the Central West End.

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