Castle Wood Park

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

Anyone ever go there? There are a lot of old tunnels and stairs going to nowhere. Pretty cool. If you go West of the park, there is an old port on the Meremac River.

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=st.+louis&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=38.54758,-90.553841&spn=0.000929,0.002682&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

here is the port

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=st.+louis&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=38.542487,-90.613225&spn=0.000929,0.002682&t=k&iwloc=addr

slow_walker · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

Is this the same place that was talked about HERE?

memory_machine · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:14 am Post subject: RE: Castle Wood Park

No, but I can see how that can be confusing. The previous post was Wood-Smith Castle, not Castle Wood Park.

slow_walker · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

I just thought maybe someone was a moron and got the name wrong. Razz

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

aww ur so nice.

slow_walker · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

Neat, you should check out castlewood sometime. Its a park. not a castle.

pavement · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: RE: Castle Wood Park

That "port" is really the barge at the end of the dissapointing "Zombie road".

Chris · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

Yeah, that's "Zombie Road" alright. It's actually the remains of an old sand dredging operation and the road is actually called "Lawlor Ford Road"

schitz240sx · 0-99 Poster Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 9 Usergroups: None

Sweet. Thanks guys. Does anyone have info on the resort that used to be in castlewood? I can never find anything about it.

Chris · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

Any idea what it may have been called?

Around the turn of the century, the Meramec river through what is now west county was a major tourist attraction for city dwellers during the summer time.

the_p0ssum · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: Re: Castle Wood Park

The site below has a pretty good history of the park:

Castlewood History

Also, the following link from the MO state site notes that the grand staircase is still there:

MO State Site

On edit....found the following pics of the grand staircase:

Pics

tunajive · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: RE: Castle Wood Park

As far as the grand staircase goes the only part that is authentic is the stone part near the bottom of the staircase. The rest of the wooden part I believe was a boyscout project years ago. Castlewood is a cool place but as far as buildings and abandonments go there isn't much left. Near castlewood there is an old stone building and a couple other buildings that I have no idea what they used to be. Pretty sweet to stop and see though, but last time I was there we didn't take any pics.

-Matt