Frontier Park

This is a difficult park to access. There is a metal iron fence running the length of Riverside Drive. This fence has very few opening to access the park. If you are eating, shopping, walking around Historic Main Street and would like to visit Frontier Park you have to find an open access point. I have seen people blocking the road trying to funnel into one of a few openings in the fence.
The park has some seating, some paths, and a Grand Pavilion. During festivals the grass is filled with vendors. It is a good location to view the river. Fourth of July fireworks are a popular attraction at this park. The Katy Trail runs through Frontier Park.

This isn’t a playground type park but the events hosted here are usually pretty good. It’s just a short jaunt away from historic downtown Saint Charles and makes for good walks after lunch/​dinner.

Love this place, they host so many activities, this night we went to Food Trucks on Frontier and it was a blast. There were so many people a live band and all the different food genres you could imagine. I believe they had 15 different trucks. I cannot wait for the next event!

It’s a really chill park at a great location.
I guess there isn’t too much to do here compared to normal parks, but if you’re into things like frisbee’s, photography, flowers, rivers, kites, green grass, or railroads then you’ll probably find something you like to do here.

So this park isn’t a kid type park. There is no equipment for them to climb on and go nuts. What this park is good for is a picnic, a stroll or just relaxing and watching the river pass by. The Katy Trail passes through and there is an old train parked on the old rail road tracks and an old train depot. Also, there is a 15 foot statue of Lewis and Clark. I’ve been told if you sit on the boot and pass gas it will ring out. I wasn’t along for that adventure, but I can imagine I would laugh pretty hard. Other than that there isn’t much going on unless there is a festival of some sort going on.
Some of the festivals held in the park are Festival of the Little Hills, 4^th of July (with a pretty impressive fireworks display), Lewis and Clark Heritage Days (with food and crafts from that era), October Fest, Celtic Festival and others. Parking sucks for the larger festivals. I recommend finding a spot and walking unless you like to pay $ 10-​$ 20 for parking. The paid parking does benefit the boy scouts or who ever is manning the lot.
There are brand new bathrooms now in the park. These are modern bathrooms and pretty awesome. The light turns on when you open the door to save energy. There are no seats that lift up on the toilets and everything is made out of recycled plastic. The sinks are made of the same material and are automatic as well as the hand dryer. The hand dryer is in with the sink. It’s really cool and these restrooms are open at night. We walk our dogs in the park on a regular basis and some times nature calls and I need to go before I get home. I’m really happy these are here now. There is a men’s room, women’s room and family section. Great addition to the park!

I have been to this park many times to visit the Festival of the little hills and on my way through on the Katy trail, but I never really just walk around at the park.
I guess you could say that it is pretty uninteresting and kinda just bland.
I went with my wife and kids, and our three year old was in tears because they didn’t have a swing set or jungle gym. I pretty much had no idea that they had no such equipment so I felt bad for telling her they did.
When we were walking around we saw a sign about a future project to bring said equipment but that they were still several $ 100,000’s of dollars away from the fund raising goal to make it happen. So I am not holding my breath.
It is a nice place and I really like the train tracks and trains that they have on display. I also have taken engagement photos for a couple here and they were really nice on the tracks.
But in the end for a family looking to have fun with the kids it falls short.

Missouri River & the Katy trail (converted railroad tracks to a long flat biking, jogging & walking path)
are the day to day attraction.
The park also serves as a good place for St Charles to hold «free» festivals. They have a large stage & grounds to set up pop-​up tents.