Oakland Avenue at Clayton Avenue, intersecting Hampton Avenue, near the New I-64 Hwy., showing the area for the St. Louis Zoo Expansion

Area left from the demolished Deaconess Hospital (Forest Park Hospital, more recently).  See:  http://directoryofstlouis.com/blog/st-louis-zoo-finds-elbow-room-at-old-deaconess/

The Imo's Restaurant island area in the middle of Oakland Avenue, Clayton Avenue and Hampton Avenue

Looking north on Hampton Avenue, toward Forest Park, and both Clayton Avenue and Oakland Avenue intersecting, at the New I-64 Hwy.

Mercedes-Benz of St. Louis auto dealership, and the Imo's Pizza restaurant, on the east side of Hampton Avenue

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO AND AROUND FOREST PARK - Oakland Avenue from McCausland Avenue/Clayton Road/Clayton Avenue/Skinker Blvd. intersection east, toward the St. Louis Zoo new expansion

 Oakland Avenue's new tan pebbled concrete sidewalks, standard white concrete curbs and black asphalt pavement with white striping for a wide bicycle lane, completed this summer, 2015

 New sidewalks still being completed, at the Oakland Avenue/Clayton Road/Clayton Avenue/McCausland Avenue intersection, near Forest Park

 New concrete forms still existing, looking toward Forest Park and Skinker Blvd.

 At the Hi-Pointe Theatre, concrete installed with the ADA/handicapped strip at the street edge

 From the Amoco gas station property, looking east down Oakland Avenue, showing the new street lighting, stop signs, sidewalks and curbs and ADA strips

 Looking at the Hi-Pointe Theatre property, new concrete around the entrance

 The new concrete design - brick pattern in a gray-colored concrete at the curb, and white standard concrete with curb

New concrete at the Hi-Pointe Theatre

Pictures from Around the Neighborhood - Blendon Place, Oakland Avenue, Wise Avenue, Yale Avenue, Berthold Avenue, Hi-Pointe Place, Kuhs Place, Ethel Avenue, Highland Terrace, Clayton Road, McCausland Avenue, at the New I-64 Highway

 Oakland Avenue apartments, located at Blendon Place

 Oakland Avenue new condominiums, fronting on Clayton Road, also

 Oakland Avenue, looking east

 Oakland Avenue, looking west, taken from near Blendon Place

 Kuhs Place, looking toward Ethel Avenue, from at the Oakland Avenue intersection

 Hi-Pointe Place, looking toward Ethel Avenue

 Oakland Avenue, looking east, from the Hi-Pointe Place intersection

 Oakland Avenue, looking west, from the Hi-Pointe Place intersection

 Hi-Pointe Place, looking toward Oakland Avenue

 McCausland Avenue and Ethel Avenue houses, from the Hi-Pointe Place intersection

 Hi-Pointe Place, looking toward Oakland Avenue, from the Ethel Avenue intersection

 Houses on Berthold Avenue

 Old and existing Berthold Avenue intersection, looking east toward McCausland Avenue, and the New I-64 Highway.

 Missouri Dept. of Transportation property around the old and existing Berthold Avenue

 Berthold Avenue's old end of the street (existed prior to the highway 40/64 construction in the 1960s), showing the city of St. Louis Land Reclamation Authority property

 Wise Avenue, looking toward Bellevue Avenue, from the Berthold Avenue intersection

 Berthold Avenue curving up the hill, with Blendon Place on the left

 Wise Avenue, with Berthold Avenue at the end of the street

 Yale Avenue, looking toward Oakland Avenue

 Oakland Avenue looking east

Yale Avenue, looking toward the Wise Avenue intersection

 Blendon Place, looking toward Oakland Avenue

 Blendon Place, looking toward Berthold Avenue, with the Ethel Avenue intersection on the left side

 Kuhs Place, looking toward Oakland Avenue, from at the Ethel Avenue intersection

 Ethel Avenue, looking west from the Hi-Pointe Place intersection

 Wise Avenue new concrete road and sidewalks, new sod laid - finished on the east side of Bellevue Avenue

 Concrete road work - replacing Wise Avenue ongoing this summer

Wise Avenue at Highland Terrace intersection

Urban Trails

North St. Louis County in December, 2014.  See the cake?  This river property was the site of an early landing, for settlers who came by water, and camped.

Forest Park in the city of St. Louis, Washington University neighborhood, with the golf course carts roadway and the dual trail walking trail, in Summer, 2015.

Historical house and property with surrounding land and walks, in 2014.  See the cake?  St. Louis celebrated 250 years in February, 2014, continued through February, 2015.

St. Louis Botanical Garden Children's Garden  -  two bridge walkways, from 2014.  Botanical Garden is located near Kingshighway Blvd., near Highway 44, and adjacent to Tower Grove Park.  Have you seen the Shaw Nature Reserve, part of the Botanical Garden?   This rural area is located in Franklin County, Missouri - southwest of St. Louis, down Highway 44.