Missouri State Penitentiary

It was awesome. Very interesting. We bought the book.

Awesome day your! Very informative and interesting! Mark the tour guide was great! A big plus souvenirs are inexpensive and still nice!

I was working in town from out of state and decided to do an evening Ghost Walk tour. (I then came back to do a daytime history tour the following day.) There's much to be said about the history, and it is rather fun to photograph. The evening tour that I took allowed you to tour three of the buildings, plus the execution chamber. Rather than explain to you the details and try and convince you to visit (on that note, you should visit, it's awesome, and that's all that needs to be said regarding that) I would prefer to give you an idea of what tour you want to ask for based on what you would prefer to see. Firstly, both tour guides I experienced were former prison guards, and their perspectives and stories made the tour worth taking twice. Secondly, the evening ghost tour allowed you to tour both the women's cell block and death row, which were omitted from the day history tour. Death row was interesting, and the added ambiance of them shutting off the lights and leaving you in the dark for a moment certainly gave you a moment of solitude to digest where you were standing. The day tour lacks death row (you still tour the gas chamber) however, compensates in a more detailed history of the site. The website explains what tours offer what sights, so I would certainly recommend checking there over taking the word of this review as a promise as to what you will see. Both tours last roughly two hours, and given the expansive grounds, the matter that you can explore the cells and question the former guards about their experiences, it's not a terrible idea to consider going twice.

Due to storm damage, the tours are cancelled at this time. Looks like tornado damage to this building and surrounding homes as well as the capitol rotunda. 9/5/19

Interesting place to stop