Grand Boulevard is a major, seven to five lane wide, north-south thoroughfare

Thoroughfare

A thoroughfare is a place of transportation intended to connect one location to another. Highways, roads, and trails are examples of thoroughfares used by a variety of general traffic. On land a thoroughfare may refer to anything from a rough trail to multi-lane highway with grade separated...

 running through the center of St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. Grand runs north through Carondolet Park in the south of St. Louis to the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

 north of McKinley Bridge

McKinley Bridge

The McKinley Bridge is a steel truss bridge across the Mississippi River. It connects northern portions of the city of St. Louis, Missouri with Venice, Illinois. It opened in 1910 and was taken out of service on October 30, 2001. The bridge was reopened for pedestrian and bicyclists on November 17,...

, about midway between Forest Park and the Mississippi River. Neighborhoods it runs through include Dutchtown

Dutchtown, St. Louis

Dutchtown is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is called "Dutch" from Deutsch, i.e., "German", as it was the southern center of German-American settlement in St. Louis in the early 19th century...

, Tower Grove East

Tower Grove East, St. Louis

Tower Grove East is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is a part of the Tower Grove area. The Tower Grove East neighborhood is bordered by Shenandoah Avenue to the north, Nebraska Avenue to the east, Gravois Avenue to the south, and south Grand Boulevard to the west.The...

, Tower Grove South

Tower Grove South, St. Louis

Tower Grove South is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Formerly known as Oak Hill, Tower Grove South is bounded by Arsenal Street on the north, Chippewa Street on the south, Kingshighway Boulevard on the west, and Grand Boulevard on the east. The majority of the neighborhood was built...

, Compton Heights, the Tiffany neighborhood

Tiffany, St. Louis

Tiffany is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is located on the western side of Grand Boulevard along the section containing St. Louis University’s Medical Complex...

, Midtown

Midtown St. Louis

Midtown St. Louis is three miles west of the St. Louis, Missouri riverfront at the crossroads of Grand Boulevard and Lindell Boulevard. It includes the campus of Saint Louis University and the Grand Center arts district.-Historic status:...

, Jef-Vander-Lou

JeffVanderLou, St. Louis

JeffVanderLou is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is situated between North Vandeventer Avenue on the northwest, Natural Bridge avenue on the northeast, North Jefferson Avenue on the East, Delmar Boulevard on the south, and North Compton Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive...

, Fairground, and College Hill

College Hill, St. Louis

College Hill is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The name College Hill was given to this area because it was the location of the St. Louis University College Farm. This area, bounded generally by Warne College Hill is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The name College Hill was given to...

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Mass-transit connections

Grand Boulevard connects with the St. Louis Metrolink

St. Louis Metrolink

MetroLink is the light rail transit system in the Greater St. Louis area of Missouri and the Metro East area of Illinois. The entire system currently consists of two lines connecting Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and Shrewsbury, MO with Scott Air Force Base near Shiloh, Illinois through...

 light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 service at Grand Station

Grand (St. Louis Metrolink)

Grand is a St. Louis MetroLink station. This station is located below the Grand Boulevard viaduct. Until spring 2011, the station was accessible by two elevators, stairs, and a ramp on Scott Avenue. In March 2011, the station was temporarily closed to permit the demolition of the Grand Boulevard...

. The station was closed in spring 2011 due to demolition of the viaduct

Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early...

 on Grand spanning the Metrolink tracks, industrial train tracks, and an industrial park. The project is expected to take 18-24 months and will include the replacement of the Grand Avenue station.

Grand also has the 70 Grand MetroBus

MetroBus (St. Louis)

MetroBus is the public bus service for the Greater St. Louis Region connected with the MetroLink light rail system. It is managed by the Bi-State Development Agency and uses a shared fare system with the MetroLink rail.-Service:...

, the busiest bus route in the metropolitan area. The route number, 70, comes from a previous streetcar line with that number that operated on track in the center lane of Grand Boulevard.

Places on Grand Boulevard

• Sportsman's Park
  Sportsman's Park
  Sportsman's Park was the name of several former Major League Baseball ballpark structures in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, all but one of which were located on the same piece of land, the northwest corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street on the north side of the city.- History :From...
  
  
• Fairground Park
  Fairground Park
  Fairground Park is a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri, that opened in 1908. It was originally a privately owned facility, used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902 . The annual exposition ceased in 1902 as preparations for...
  
  
• Divoli Branch library
  St. Louis Public Library
  The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It operates sixteen locations, including the main Central Library location. Although similarly named, the St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to the St...
  
  
• St. Louis University
• Fox Theatre
• Grand Center the arts district
• Compton Hill Reservoir Park
  Compton Hill Reservoir Park
  Compton Hill Reservoir Park is a public park located in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Located on one of the highest elevations within the city, the park surrounds a reservoir used to provide water for many of the city's residents.- History :James P. Kirkwood...
  
   site of the landmark Compton Hill Water Tower
  Water tower
  A water tower or elevated water tower is a large elevated drinking water storage container constructed to hold a water supply at a height sufficient to pressurize a water distribution system....
  
  
• Carpenter Branch library
  St. Louis Public Library
  The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It operates sixteen locations, including the main Central Library location. Although similarly named, the St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to the St...
  
  
• Tower Grove Park
  Tower Grove Park
  Tower Grove Park is a municipal park in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. Most of its land was donated to the city by Henry Shaw in 1868. It is on 289 acres adjacent to the Missouri Botanical Garden, another of Shaw’s legacies. It extends 1.6 miles from west to east, between Kingshighway...
  
  
• St. Louis University Medical Center
  Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  Saint Louis University School of Medicine is a private, American medical school within Saint Louis University.It was established in 1836 as the Medical Department of the university and had the distinction, in 1839, of awarding the first M.D. degree granted west of the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Carondolet Park
• Pius XII Memorial Library
• Powell Symphony Hall
  Powell Symphony Hall
  Powell Symphony Hall is the home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It was named after Walter S. Powell, a local St. Louis businessman, whose widow donated $1 million towards the purchase and use of this hall by the symphony...
  
  
• Samuel Cupples
  Samuel Cupples
  Samuel Cupples was a St. Louis, Missouri woodenware merchant and business partner of Robert S. Brookings. With the Brookings Brothers, Cupples enlarged his company to enormous proportions. He also built "Cupples Station" in downtown St...
  
   Museum House
• Ted Drewes
  Ted Drewes
  Ted Drewes is a frozen custard shop in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The original St. Louis shop on Natural Bridge Road operated from 1930 to 1958. The Chippewa Street is open much of the year, the South Grand Boulevard location is open in summer. The Chippewa location is open until around midnight...
  
   the Grand location of the locally famous Frozen custard stands
• Edward A. Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy
  Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.Doisy was born in Hume, Illinois, on November 3, 1893. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 and his M.S...
  
   Research Center
• KDHX
  KDHX
  KDHX is an award winning, independent, non-commercial, listener-supported community radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States located at 88.1 MHz FM offering a full spectrum of music along with cultural and public affairs programming since 1987...
  
  88.1 FM community radio, located directly off of Grand