If you’re looking for both nature and architectural senior pictures that are different from the average high schooler, check out Faust Park. With a mix of woods, a lake with a path through grasses, log cabins, and historic buildings, you’ll have a variety of backgrounds and looks in one, small park. You can even make your session extra special by taking a stroll through the Butterfly House, surrounding yourself with beautiful butterflies, or hoping up on the carousel and posing with the horses.

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The Best Part About Faust Park

One of Faust Park’s best-known features is the Butterfly House. With butterflies flying all around in a bubble filled with trees, flowers, and bushes your photos will be filled with nature and gentle creatures. If you’re lucky enough, the butterflies will land on you and make for extra special portraits.

Head outside the Butterfly house for photos of you walking down the flower and grass filled pathway as you head over to the lake. With trees and tall grasses around the outside of the lake, you’ll have a variety of options for photos with the lake in the background. To add to it, this is the perfect angle for capturing the stunning, glass building that’s the Butterfly House behind you as well.

Just across the lawn stands a small village of log cabins and historic buildings that set against the woods. These buildings are perfect for standing in front of, leaning against, sitting on the steps, and holding onto fences. The wooded background gives your portraits more of a country vibe instead of feeling like you’re in the middle of a city as well.

Towards the back of the park is a pathway through the forest, giving you the perfect whimsical scene as you stroll through the woods or to step into the tall grasses to create a more earthy and adventurous look to your photos.

What to Expect Each Season

Spring

With the number of trees growing in Faust Park, you’ll find plenty of green leaves popping up on trees, giving Faust Park more color. The nature walk will also be blooming with spring wildflowers that are perfect for standing and sitting amongst. Along the lake you’ll also find those spring flowers blooming, giving you more variety for backgrounds with the tall grasses, lake, and Butterfly House.

Summer

Flowers can be found blooming in and around the historic village in small gardens. These flowers are perfect for standing behind, sitting in front of, or even having partially in the background while you lean against a nearby building, giving you both the liveliness of flowers but also an architectural vibe.

Fall

Faust Park is filled with trees that turn vibrant reds and oranges during the fall. You won’t fall short of fall colors here. Trees surround the area, so everywhere you go, whether it’s in the historic village, down the trail, or by the Butterfly House, you’ll find plenty of changing leaves on the trees and laying on the ground.

Winter

With the cabins and historic village, Faust Park offers plenty of scenery during the winter. You won’t have to worry about your background being full of brown trees. The buildings offer multiple, vibrant colors to brighten up your photos being painted in yellows, reds, whites, and greens.

Pricing and Accommodations

Faust Park is free and open from dawn to dusk. Restrooms are across from the playground that’s in between the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House and the historic village.

Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House costs $8 per person or is free for Missouri Botanical Garden Members. Hours vary by season.

Spring/Summer: 9:00am - 4:o0pm
Fall/Winter: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuesday - Sunday (Closed Monday)

The carousel costs $2 to ride and is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

Address

15025 Faust Pk Dr, Chesterfield, MO 63017

Senior Pictures at Faust Park

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