Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park
Missouri
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
6.7 h fully dark
Crowds
low
Open today
Open
Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Nov 26 – Nov 26; Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Dec 25 – Dec 25; Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Jan 1 – Jan 1
Entrance
Free entry
Janis-Ziegler House (Green Tree Tavern) Closed
The Janis-Ziegler House (Green Tree Tavern) building is currently closed, due to unsafe conditions. Other park buildings and grounds are open according to regular schedules. For program information, please check with park staff at the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center, 573-880-7189.
Established by 1750, Ste. Geneviève was the first permanent European settlement in Missouri. Early French Canadian settlers were drawn here by the rich agricultural land known as Le Grand Champ (the Big Field). After the flood of 1785, the town relocated to its present location on higher ground approximately three miles to the northwest of its original site.
Activities
Topics
No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park and the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center is open daily with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. For program information and access to historic structures, please check with staff at the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center, 573-880-7189.
⚠ Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Nov 26 – Nov 26; Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Dec 25 – Dec 25; Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park: closed Jan 1 – Jan 1
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 573-880-7189
✉ STGE_Visitor_Info@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec
Typical crowds: low
Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 78°F
🌦️ 78°/69°
🌦️ 90°/69°
☁️ 92°/71°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
10%
Feb
27%
Mar
64%
Apr
91%
May
80%
Jun
78%
Jul
70%
Aug
100%
Sep
68%
Oct
52%
Nov
36%
Dec
30%
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Things to do
Visit the Jean Baptiste Vallé House
Visit the Bauvais-Amoureux House
Visit Green Tree Tavern
Walk Around The Jean Baptiste Vallé Gardens
Making a Home
Houses of History
Take the Wellness Challenge at Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
Stretch Outside
Visitor centers
Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center
Accessibility
3 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
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Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
People & stories
Figures tied to Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park — each spans a cross-park journey.
Antoine Janis
— Ste. Genevieve Nhp, Ste. Genevieve, JanisAntoine St. Charles Janis
— Janis, Ste. Genevieve, MissouriFelicité Janis Bauvais
— Ste. Genevieve, Janis, BauvaisFrancois Nicolas Janis
— Green Tree Tavern, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve NhpJean-Baptiste Janis
— Green Tree Tavern, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve NhpJoseph Antoine Janis
— Janis, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve NhpMarie-Louise Janis
— Janis, Ste. Genevieve, MissouriPassport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Bauvais-Amoureux House
🎫 Green Tree Tavern
🎫 Jean Baptiste Vallé House
🎫 Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center
Places to see
Bauvais-Amoureux House
audio
Bolduc-LeMeilleur House
Felix Vallé House
Green Tree Tavern
Guibourd-Vallé House
Jean Baptiste Vallé House
audio
Louis Bolduc House
Memorial Cemetery
audio
Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church
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Learn more
The climate of Ste. Genevieve has changed over the course of the last 200 years shaping the community and the National Historical Park.
Route 66 and the National Park Service have always had an important historical connection. Route 66 was known as the great road west and after World War II families on vacation took to the road in great numbers to visit the many National Park Service sites in the Southwest and beyond. That connection remains very alive and present today. Take a trip down Route 66 and Find Your Park today!
In colonial Ste. Genevieve the year was shaped around the religious celebrations and rituals that the majority French Catholic population observed. Learn about the winter celebrations that occurred during the most festive time of year from December-January for the community.
This Ste. Genevieve culture was unlike anything else in what is now the United States. It is also substantially different from its parent cultures in Canada, Louisiana, and France. As a cultural zone it was unique in terms of law, religion, customs, use of the land, architecture, personal philosophy, slave law, and even in a skewed version of spoken and written French. Read more about how this culture was not like any other.
From simple to sophisticated, clothing on the French frontier was varied and unique as any society can be. Some were even said to be in good taste. Get your sense of fashion on here.
Like food, language helps define a culture. In Sainte Genevieve it was a melding of cultures. Thus new words came into being. Learn how people and place influence common terms still in use today.
The pattern of land usage, settlement, and agriculture that developed in the middle Mississippi River Valley during the 18th century was unique in North America. The system paralleled the communal agriculture of northern France during the period of the high Middle Ages. Read more about life on the commons.
Plan your visit to Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park using helpful tips and suggestions from our Park Rangers.
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