For the park in New York see Forest Park (Queens)
Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1876 and the former site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, (better known as "The World's Fair") is one of the large urban landscape parks created during the later 19th century, following the example of Central Park in New York City. At 1,293 acres (5.2 km²), Forest Park is considerably larger than New York's Central Park (843 acres or 3.41 km²).
The park is located along the western edge of the City of St. Louis, though it is located nearly in the center of the entire metropolitan area. It is bordered by Skinker Boulevard and Washington University in St. Louis to the west, Highway 64/40 and Oakland Avenue to the south, Kingshighway Boulevard and Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University Medical Center to the east, and Lindell Boulevard to the north.
At one time the River des Peres ran openly through the park, but due to sanitary concerns it was moved into a wooden box underground shortly before the World's Fair.blank">http://www.eco-absence.org/text/desperes.htm However, as part of the park's "Master Plan"http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/forestpark/fpmasterplan.html, the river was brought back to the surface to link the park's lakes.
Other major parks in the city of St. Louis include _Tower Grove Park and Carondelet Park.
