The All Things St. Joseph Thread

[cmh6476]

I know many of you are already planning your 2010 summer trip to our wonderful city. I think we need a repository of all things St. Joseph from the locals. From hotels to restaurants to things to do or see, let's gather it all here and then for the next 5 years you'll all have some place to look before you plan your travels.

Doesn't have to be St. Joe either, can be the near vicinity. Of course we can't list everything to do in Elwood, otherwise this will just get a bit out of control.

So with that said, you guys throw out your thoughts/ suggestions, and I'll try and update the initial post and link to your reviews of certain restaurants, find links to the places you mention and try and post everything here in some kind of comprehenisble fashion.

Places to Stay:

• Candlewood Suites
• Holiday Inn Riverfront Hotel
• Nzoner's
• Ramada Inn & Monkey Cove Waterpark
• Shakespeare Chateau Bed & Breakfast
• Stoney Creek Inn

Things to Do:

• Cool Crest Garden Golf
• Glore Psychiatric Museum
• Historic Homes Tour
• National Military Heritage Museum
• Patee House Museum
• Remington Nature Center & Riverfront Walking Trail
• Terrible's St. Joe Frontier Casino

Places to Eat:

• Barbosa's Castillo
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• Boudreaux's Louisiana Seafood & Steaks
• First Ward Houe & Pinzino's BBQ
• Galvin's Dinnerhouse
• Hoof and Horn Steakhouse
• Chain Restaurant's: Applebee's, Bandana's BBQ, Bob Evans, Buffalo Wild Wings, Cheddar's, Chili's, Country Kitchen, Cracker Barrel, Denny's, Famous Dave's, 54th Street Bar & Grill, IHOP, Le Peep, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Rib Crib, Whiskey Creek

Bars/ Nightlife:

• Big Shot's
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• Biggin's
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• Blondie's
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• Brown Bear Tavern
  
• Cafe Acoustic
  CP Reviews: Demonpenz, cmh6476
  
• Felix Street Pub
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• Foster's Martini Bar
  
• Hammerhead's
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• Hammerjack's
  CP Reviews: Demonpenz
  
• Hi-Ho Bar & Grill
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• Kelly's Pub
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• Legend's Bar & Grill
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• Magoon's
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• Muny Inn
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• Norty's
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• The Rear View Bar & Grill
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• The Rendevous
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• Shaft Nightclub
  CP Reviews: BigCatDaddy, Demonpenz, cmh6476
  
• Snakebite Club
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• The Tap Room
  CP Reviews: Molitoth, BigCatDaddy, cmh6476
  
• Tremor's Night Club
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• Tuck's
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• Uncle D's Sports Bar & Grill
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• Volley's
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• Wiley's
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[HypnotizedMonkey]

Leave Elwood Alone!!!! *cries* lol

[Skip Towne]

The starting point for the Pony Express

[Color Red]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

The starting point for the Pony Express

And the ending point for Jesse James...

[Hammock Parties]

Where's the best place to get laid?

[Kyle DeLexus]

Originally Posted by Claythan

Where's the best place to get laid?

Craigslist....next?

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Claythan

Where's the best place to get laid?

Try "The Shaft" in dowtown St. Joe.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Try "The Shaft" in dowtown St. Joe.

Ooh, lots of hot guys?

[Rain Man]

I would consider vacationing in St. Joseph if I knew the following were available:

1. A nice historic area with home tours or guided walking tours.
2. At least three world-class restaurants, with entrees under $20. Or alternatively, a Chili's.
3. An area of great scenic beauty, preferably with a large waterfall, but one that's not really noisy, just tall.
4. Some sort of large archaeological vestige of a lost civilization. It could be a pyramid or it could be something else like a Mahal or a Wat.
5. A bear viewing area, preferably grizzly or polar.
6. A large wargaming convention, but one in which less than 80 percent of attendees aren't kind of weird.
7. At least one cool gimmick hotel, like one made out of ice, or underwater, or in a big treehouse.
8. A high point that offers stunning vistas of the surrounding area. It could be a natural high point like a mountaintop, or it could be a manmade high point like a Space Needle or Washington Monument.
9. A museum that contains one or more of the following: suits of armor, tanks, a display on tribal migration patterns, or a professional football history wing.
10. A festival that nominally celebrates something like Spring or Tuesday, but which informally is a raucous display of female exhibitionism.

Please advise.

[cmh6476]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I would consider vacationing in St. Joseph if I knew the following were available:

1. A nice historic area with home tours or guided walking tours.
2. At least three world-class restaurants, with entrees under $20. Or alternatively, a Chili's.
3. An area of great scenic beauty, preferably with a large waterfall, but one that's not really noisy, just tall.
4. Some sort of large archaeological vestige of a lost civilization. It could be a pyramid or it could be something else like a Mahal or a Wat.
5. A bear viewing area, preferably grizzly or polar.
6. A large wargaming convention, but one in which less than 80 percent of attendees aren't kind of weird.
7. At least one cool gimmick hotel, like one made out of ice, or underwater, or in a big treehouse.
8. A high point that offers stunning vistas of the surrounding area. It could be a natural high point like a mountaintop, or it could be a manmade high point like a Space Needle or Washington Monument.
9. A museum that contains one or more of the following: suits of armor, tanks, a display on tribal migration patterns, or a professional football history wing.
10. A festival that nominally celebrates something like Spring or Tuesday, but which informally is a raucous display of female exhibitionism.

Please advise.

1. Actually, there is a historic homes tour. There's a lot of old money in St. Joe with some grand old houses and architecture.

http://www.stjomo.com/historic_homes.aspx

2. World class? I'm not so sure, but there are some fantastic restaurants specific to St. Joe. Many people traveling in to see family enjoy coming back to eat at these establishments, like Barbosa's, the Hoof and Horn, Galvin's and a handful of other great places to eat.

3. There used to be a waterfall at Krug Park, but it's all but dried up. Still a beautiful park with a pond and lots of ducks and geese. King Hill lookout and Wyeth Park are overlooks above the city and suounding area and provide great scenic views. Bluff Woods conservation area is a great place to visit in the fall, but might not provide much for viewing in the summer month of August.

4. Would Indian artifacts count? There's a nice collection at the recently built Remington Nature Center. The Native Americans are a lost civilization, simply because the English settlers simply murdered most of them upon settling in North America.

5. There are no longer bears in Northwest Missouri, unfortunately. There's a stuffed bear at the Nature Center though

6. I think there is some sort of society established in town that focuses on video gaming. I'm not that familiar with it. Slightly related, there are various civil war reenactments that take place throughout the area spread throughout the year.

7. umm, I guess the closest would be the Ramada Inn with a newly built indoor water park. However, I've heard it isn't the quitest place to settle in for the night.

8. see the King Hill lookout and Wyeth Park viewing areas referenced above.

9. There are a lot of great museums in the area. Not sure anything you request specifically, however we have the Glore Psychiatric Museum (old mental hospital turned museum), Remington Nature Center (displays on most of the native animals and native american, civil war and pony express memorabilia), Patee House Museum (an old motel turned museum, also the place the Pony Express was operated out of, lots of Jesse James and Pony Express history), the Pony Express Museum (old pony express stables with memorabilia from that period), Miliary Heritage Museum, and a couple other museums I'm not mentioning.

10. Mardi Gras parade

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

7. umm, I guess the closest would be the Ramada Inn with a newly built indoor water park. However, I've heard it isn't the quitest place to settle in for the night.

9. we have the Glore Psychiatric Museum (old mental hospital turned museum)

ok, #7. The Shakespeare Chateau may qualify as well, it's a B&B with stained glass and wood carvings depicting scenes from Shakepeare

and #9. the Glore is pretty amazing... one of the most unique museums in the US

[L.A. Chieffan]

i like the dime too.

[Stewie]

St. Joe is OK, nothing to write home about. I think it was at the bottom of the list of places to live in America not too long ago... it is in Misery, so that's about right. I've only gone there lately when working at the farm and needing parts for farm equipment. There's a nice Taco Bell by the parts store, though.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Stewie

St. Joe is OK, nothing to write home about. I think it was at the bottom of the list of places to live in America not too long ago... it is in Misery, so that's about right. I've only gone there lately when working at the farm and needing parts for farm equipment. There's a nice Taco Bell by the parts store, though.

Are the entrees under $20?

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Are the entrees under $20?

Everything in St. Joe is under $20, including a half-day's wage.