Best fireworks spots around St. Louis?
Fireworks at the Webster Groves celebration. Photo by Charles Williams/P-D
This heat is making me crazy in a Jack Nicholson kind of way.
In “A Few Good Men,” Nicholson plays Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, a cigar-chomping Old Salt who gets testy when the temperature rises.
But he didn’t have Ted Drewes. We do.
In a little more than a week, we’ll heat things up in the night sky for Independence Day. Crowds will head to the Arch for the biggest bang in town, but I’ll be at the Webster Groves celebration, a smaller shindig that includes carnival rides and corn on the cob.
We’d like to know where you’re going to be. Leave your favorite spots to see fireworks below. Let us know why you like that spot, and we’ll try to include it in the July 3 issue of Go!
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Tan-Tar-A. Sit by the pool and watch a great show. and then walk to the bar…. no driving and even though the lake is crowded,I stay off of it except in the early morning ( 8 a.m. til about 9:30a.m.)when it is smooth as glass. TTA keeps non guest out so the place is not elbow to Arse toe. TTA is were I have been going for 8 years. Fantastic show!!!!!
Fair St. Louis! They are the biggest, the brightest and the best! We’re going both nights.
I absolutely LOVE going downtown to watch the fireworks on the Levee. Fair St. Louis is always awesome with the bands and then the fabulous fireworks display. LIVE on the Levee brings in a very diverse group of musicians and then the great concerts are always followed by awesome fireworks. It doesn’t get any better than that!
On my stone wall, up on a hill overlooking the Webster Rec ball fields. Twenty one years and counting, we’ll do it again on the 3rd. Second only to my neighbor’s patio.
Fair St. Louis FOR SURE! I cannot wait for this year’s FSL!! Counting Crows, Train AND fireworks underneath the Arch!! What could be better?? Nothing says 4th of July in St. Louis like watching fireworks on the fairgrounds!! OH, and I’m so excited that Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen is featured at the Sauce Cafe on the 4th, yum! Great music, food and fireworks…that is what the 4th is all about!
The best fireworks shows always happen down on the riverfront under the arch at Fair St. Louis and Live on the Levee… There is no better place to see a spectacular display of fireworks and listen to great music for FREE!!!!
The best place is actually on the east side of the Missisippi River, but I am not going to publish it because you close minded Missourians might actually come over and get in the way of our hometown fun.
Nothing better than fireworks under the Arch. The best in the world that’s for sure.
If I want to avoid crowds, I go to the Compton Hill Reservoir and watch them from the Reservoir wall. A great view!
Whatever Joe. You flatlanders are dull, anyway. I guess it’s all that flat landscape that makes a person like that. I’d rather go downtown and see the best fireworks around, anyway!