Retro Golf at St. Louis Escape Room, Soulard

Location: 1517 S. 8th St., St. Louis, MO 63104

Website: https://www.thedarkness.com/silly-putter-mini-golf

From the website, "Are you ready to go back to the ’80s and play 18 holes of Retro Golf? Prepare for the single most unique experience you’ve ever had playing mini golf. The entire attraction is themed taking you back to the ’80s and ’90s with creative, interactive golf holes. Grab your friends and bring your cameras as Retro Golf features TONS of photo opportunities! Retro Golf also features several classic video games which can be played throughout your golf adventure so bring quarters! Located inside St. Louis Escape, downtown St. Louis, Missouri.

The Retro Golf experience isn’t just golf – we also feature a classic game room with multiple rare and limited edition pinball games, arcades, and more. After your game of golf play one of our amazing, immersive escape rooms!"

I'm glad they had signs hanging up that said ENTER HERE cause the entrance doesn't stand out. Then be warned there are a lot of steps you have to go up to get here. There is only street parking out front, no parking lot. 

                                         

My first job was at Blockbuster Video. 

Duck Hunt is the 18th hole, so don't play it until you're ready to give up your ball. 

They have a Cardinals hole and a Blues hole. 

The Titanic

Centipede hole

Donkey Kong 

On the Price is Right hole you have to put your ball in the top of the Plinko machine and then the ball comes down and out onto the green.

This is an actual pinball machine and you put your golf ball in the machine and play it until it falls out the bottom onto the green. 

This Hot Wheels one was impossible, it took us like 50 tries to get it to go all the way around.

Pac-Man was difficult!

The bowling hole was hard, we kept getting gutter balls.

For the escape rooms, here are the choices and the prices. They also show the difficulty by the average amount of people that successfully escape. 

There used to be blacklight mini golf at Putting Edge and Tee Time but they both went out of business so this is now the only one around. I did like this course a lot but it's pricey. Normal mini golf is about $6 per person but this place is $15 per person. It's a fun time though and we enjoyed it. My 10-year-old daughter is obsessed with Stranger Things and she appreciated all the 80's references and Stranger Things references on the Space Invaders hole. 

Clifton Heights Park, St. Louis City

Location: 6100 Simpson Ave, St Louis, MO 63139

Amenities: playground, lake, basketball court

Website: http://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/parks/parks/view-park.cfm?parkID=28&parkName=Clifton%20Heights%20Park

Playground ground cover: Poured rubber

This is a very quiet, quaint neighborhood park. The grounds are beautiful and the topography is unique. It's tucked in the Clifton Heights neighborhood and has a basketball court adjacent to the playground, and a lake across the street. The parking is on the street and is close to the playground, which was replaced in August 2022. According to a master plan from 2018, they have a lot of plans to improve this park including a splash pad. Since the playground was just replaced in 2022 I don't know how much of that plan is still in place. 

New playground

There are 2 sling swings and 2 baby swings

The toddler playground has a slide, a balance beam type stepper, a gear wall, a maze board, and a little climbing wall. 

The playground for bigger kids has drums, a maze board, rock wall, metal slides, rock wall, and lots of bars and poles for climbing. 

This lake is stocked with catfish and sunfish.