Celebrate New Year's Eve with your family at The Lodge indoor pool. Guests will enjoy traditional New Year's Eve festivities including a countdown to noon with the dropping of hundreds of beach balls!
Guests can swim in the wave pool and enjoy the indoor slide, music & dancing, and record the occasion at the New Year's Eve-themed backdrop for photos, complete with props and accessories. All youth guests will take home a beach ball!
December 31 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Lodge Des Peres. The Lodge Cafe will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Online registration is required by December 29 and space is limited.
Open to all; registration fees vary. For all ages.
For more information and to register: desperesmo.org
Enjoy an old-fashioned community festival at Eureka Days. This annual event includes lots of children's activities, carnival rides, fireworks, vendors, live music, bounce houses and lots more.
Enjoy farm-themed fun at The Magic House during the Fall Farm Festival. Families can meet and pet friendly farm animals like horses, cows, donkeys, pigs, goats, rabbits and chickens. Plus, kids can sit on a real tractor!
Wagon rides, live entertainment, great festival foods, a petting zoo and much more make this an apple pickin' good time for the whole family. There will be pony rides, a children's carnival, opportunities to feed goats and other farm animals, caramel apples, funnel cakes and more.
Artists will showcase their creative wares at Francis Park in St. Louis Hills, where visitors can enjoy live music, tasty food and kids' activities. Admission is free.
See the Zoo's California sea lions perform acrobatic and athletic feats, including Olympic-style dives on a high-diving platform, flipper walks, frisbee tosses and plenty of surprises. While on stage with the sea lions, the Zoo's trainers explain sea lion behavior and positive-reinforcement training, in addition to the need for conserving the sea lion's ocean habitat.