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Worth seeing in and around University City

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Washington University in St. Louis

    Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in the St.

    1 km · private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Francis Olympic Field

    Francis Olympic Field is a stadium at Washington University in St. Louis that was used as the main venue for the 1904 Summer Olympics.

    1 km · stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, US · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint Louis Art Museum

    The Saint Louis Art Museum is an art museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

    2.2 km · art museum in St. Louis, Missouri · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Saint Louis Zoo

    The Saint Louis Zoo, officially known as the Saint Louis Zoological Park, is a zoo in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

    2.8 km · zoo in St. Louis, Missouri · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Forest Park

    Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri.

    2.9 km · large city park in St. Louis, Missouri, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

    The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the university's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

    1.1 km · art museum in St. Louis, Missouri · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Concordia Seminary

    Concordia Seminary is a Lutheran seminary in Clayton, Missouri. The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.

    2 km · postsecondary institution to train pastors and church workers of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Francis Gymnasium

    Francis Gymnasium is a building at Washington University in St. Louis, currently used by the university's athletics department.

    900 m · a building at Washington University in St. Louis · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to University City

Airports
St. Louis Lambert (STL), 12 km
  • Chicago → University City
    421 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · $200–300
  • Indianapolis → University City
    378 km · quickest by road, 5h 55m · $32–44
  • Kansas City → University City
    373 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · $200–290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for University City

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for University City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{go | name | url | address 38.570833 | long | phone | hours | wikipedia Q7589613 | lastedit=2019-03-01 | content=3 miles east of the city center and serves charter and cargo flights.
  • Go nextFor a scenic day trip, take the Great River Road north from Alton to Grafton, Illinois, stopping for antique shops and then on to lunch at the Père Marquette Lodge in Père Marquette State Park.
  • Go nextCharles - nearby and makes a nice day trip.

From Wikivoyage: St. Louis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,483 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,884 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,229 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,336 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,416 km

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