St. Louis Metro East

St. Louis Metro East is a region of southwestern Illinois that includes the Illinois part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, plus surrounding counties. It consists of the counties of Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair, and Washington. The most populous city is Belleville, which is not far southeast of East St. Louis, which was once the most populous.

Cities

State of Illinois

Other destinations

Understand

Get in

By plane

🌍 Lambert St. Louis International Airport (STL IATA) is the largest airport serving St. Louis, with annual passenger traffic of approximately 13 million people. The airport is 14 miles northwest of the city center and is directly served by the MetroLink light rail line. A 2-hour MetroLink transfer ticket costs $4 from the airport. Uber vehicles are not allowed to pick up at the airport, although they may drop off passengers.

🌍 St. Louis Downtown Airport (CPS IATA) is 3 miles east of the city center and serves charter and cargo flights.

🌍 MidAmerica St. Louis Airport (BLV IATA) is 21 miles east and only serves Allegiant flights.

Get around

Car

The easiest way to get around, since this is a quite suburban area.

The St Louis area's light rail system, it runs deep into Illinois. Many of the Illinois stations have free parking.

Bus

The Metro East is divided into Madison County (north) and St. Clair County (South).

  • St Clair County buses are operated by Metro St. Louis which is the main transit provider for the St Louis metro region. These buses tend to begin/end at MetroLink stops, providing local service.
  • Madison County buses are separately operated by Madison County Transit.

See

  • 🌍 Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, One Lewis and Clark Trail, Hartford, +1 618 251-5811. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803-04 gathering men and supplies and planning their trip west. At 3PM on May 14, 1804 they set out from this spot to explore the west. The museum includes a 55 ft long full-size replica of their keelboat and an outdoor reconstruction of Camp River Dubois.

Do

  • 🌍 Gateway Motorsports Park (Madison, IL). Hosts NASCAR, Busch Series, and Craftsmen Truck Series races.
  • visit Collinsville for the World's Largest Catsup Bottle Birthday Party held in July
  • 🌍 Raging Rivers (located in Grafton).

Eat

Drink

Sleep

  • Timmermann House Bed & Breakfast located outside of Aviston, with stargazing, sound of distant train whistles. Decorated with antiques and collectables with a gourmet breakfast.

Stay safe

East St.Louis has the reputation locally of being one of the most dangerous towns in the United States.

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