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Washington Park

Washington Park
Washington Park · Carol M. Highsmith (Public domain)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Washington Park

3 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
    Cahokia

    The Cahokia Mounds is the site of a Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St.

    3.2 km · archaeological site near East St. Louis, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Emerson Park

    Emerson Park station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

    3.9 km · station in St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center

    Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

    3 km · station in St. Louis MetroLink light rail system, Illinois, USA · 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 Washington Park

Airports
St. Louis Lambert (STL), 27 km
  • Chicago → Washington Park
    413 km · quickest by air, 5h 48m · $240–360
  • Indianapolis → Washington Park
    362 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · $31–42
  • Louisville → Washington Park
    380 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · $33–45
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Washington Park

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 Washington Park. 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

    1,466 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,868 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,225 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,332 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,414 km

If you know how people move in Washington Park – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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