Centennial Greenway Plan

The plan for the Centennial Greenway calls for a 17-mile corridor that stretches between Forest Park in the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County. The greenway will connect St. Louis, University City, Olivette, Ladue, Clayton, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights and St. Peters in St. Charles County. In addition to connecting communities, it will also connect some of the St. Louis region’s most treasured parks and green spaces including Forest Park, Shaw Park, Indian Meadows and Warson Park, and the KATY Trail.

Where did the name Centennial come from? The St. Louis World’s Fair, also known as “The Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904” celebrated the centennial of President Thomas Jefferson’s real estate deal with Napoleon Bonaparte of France: $15 million for 600 million acres of the Louisiana Territories. Because a portion of this greenway follows the same route of the 1904 Olympic marathon held in St. Louis as part of the World’s Fair, it was given the name Centennial!