Join a 5th-generation St. Louisan, foodie + storyteller on this leisurely two-mile walk through St. Louis' rollercoaster history while enjoying some of the most delicious nibbles the city has to offer and all the Dad jokes you can stomach (no extra charge).

Located at the eastern edge of Forest Park and just 5 minutes from Downtown, the Central West End ("CWE") is the most popular of St. Louis's 79 neighborhoods and the only one listed among the "Great Places of America". In the late 19th century, it was the epicenter of Gilded Age wealth in America's fourth largest city and de facto capital of America's westward expansion where one of the grandest exhibitions of human achievement in history took place - the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (or World's Fair). We still won't shut up about it.

From these auspicious beginnings came an architectural grandiosity that would weather the many lives of modern St. Louis - a neighborhood transformed by Prohibition, Depression, sprawl, abandonment and rebirth.