Let's do Wildwood, Missouri.
Let's Do Wildwood MO is a friendly field guide to Wildwood, Missouri, the wooded, hilly city on the far western edge of St. Louis County. Here you'll find the parks worth a Saturday, the diners and markets worth a table, the schools, the seasonal calendar, and the small reasons people stay for decades.
- Where
- St. Louis County, MO
- Coordinates
- 38.583° N, 90.663° W
- Open space
- ≈ 11 sq mi
- Founded
- 1995
What makes Wildwood, Wildwood
Three facts that explain most of what you'll see driving around: big lots, real hills, and trails everywhere.
Three acres at a time
Wildwood plans around large lots: most homes sit on three acres or more of woods and meadow, so your neighbors are oak trees, deer, and the occasional grazing horse.
Foothills of the Ozarks
The city sprawls over the first green ridges of the Ozarks, all limestone bluffs, creek valleys, and winding rural roads that change color with the season.
A city of parks
Roughly 11 of Wildwood's 68 square miles are public open space, knit together by more than 50 miles of trails. You are never far from a good walk.
Six entries worth reading
Every page in this guide is written by someone who's actually walked the trail, eaten at the counter, and called this place home.
Parks & Outdoors
Rockwoods, the Al Foster Trail, bluff views, and where the dog park is.
Local Food & Drink
Diners, roadhouses, and the farmers market that runs May through October.
Schools
The Rockwood schools you'll meet on Wildwood roads, from Babler to Lafayette.
The Wildwood Calendar
Celebrate Wildwood, the summer concert series, and the races they run in the dark.
Life in Wildwood
Eleven founding settlements, three-acre zoning, and what a Saturday looks like.
Moving to Wildwood
A newcomer's field guide: what to know, what to plan for, what to save for first.
From the record: census + city park data
- 35,417
- neighbors, per the 2020 census
- 68
- square miles of city, mostly wooded
- 11
- square miles held as public open space
- 50+
- miles of multi-use trails
The day we'd plan for you
Coffee at a counter on the Town Center, then the farmers market for tomatoes, honey, and a plan for dinner.
The Trail Among the Trees at Rockwoods Reservation, where the trail is short, the limestone is old, and the kids forgive you the hills.
Bluff View Park for the overlook toward Crescent Valley, then dinner somewhere on Manchester Road with the windows open.
Written by a local, not a brochure
This guide is kept by Colleen Lawler, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty. Colleen has spent more than 30 years helping St. Louis-area families find their place and is ranked top in her company, the metro area, and the state. She thinks the city's best advertisement is the city itself, so there's no portfolio here: just the place, observed, season to season.
When you're ready to talk homes, lots, or school boundaries, the same notebook is open. A note through the contact page gets a real, local answer.