St. Louis Region
Broemmelsiek Park adds astronomy to St. Charles County parks
St. Charles County Parks lists Broemmelsiek Park in Defiance with trails, lakes, an agriculture educational garden, and an astronomy viewing area.
Broemmelsiek Park gives St. Charles County a park identity that is not only playgrounds and picnic shelters. The county parks page places the main park entrance on Highway DD in Defiance and describes paved and natural-surface trails, lakes for fishing, kayaking and paddleboarding, a dog park, an agriculture educational garden, and an astronomy viewing area. The same page lists a separate astronomy viewing area address on Schwede Road in Wentzville.
For a resident or visitor, that means Broemmelsiek is a county-park source to check for trail access, reservations, park hours, and the specific astronomy-viewing location. For the county page, it adds durable color: St. Charles County’s outdoor layer includes western-county open space and night-sky programming, not only the Katy Trail and Missouri River corridor.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to St. Charles County. See every local note for the county on its page.