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St. Louis Earth Day Festival
St. Louis, MO · Nature
- When
- April 24–25, 2027
- Where
- The Muny Grounds, Forest Park · St. Louis · MO
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A small group led by teacher and rainforest advocate Matt Diller organized the first St. Louis Earth Day Festival in 1989. The nonprofit earthday365 now runs it each spring on Forest Park's Muny Grounds as one of the largest Earth Day celebrations in the country. (2027 date approximate, following the event's established late-April pattern.)
The history within reach
- St. Louis Earth Day Festivalsame spot
A small group led by teacher and rainforest advocate Matt Diller organized the first St.
Twenty million people came to 1,200 acres of temporary palaces, and the Olympics were folded in as a sideshow.
- Forest Park0.3 mi
Five hundred acres larger than Central Park, and free to enter along with the art museum, zoo, science centre and history museum inside it, a tax district voted by the public keeps them that way.
- The Saint Louis Zoo0.4 mi
Begun around a walk-through aviary left behind by the 1904 fair, and free every day since, one of the few major zoos in the world with no admission charge.
Eleven thousand seats under the open sky between two oak trees in Forest Park, running a summer season every year since 1917, which makes it the oldest and largest outdoor musical theatre in the country.