Happy Hours in Lowertown

Lowertown is downtown St. Paul's artsy, historic corner, a district of restored warehouse and commercial buildings that's become the city's loft-living and creative hub. Home to CHS Field and a thriving arts community, it has an energy the rest of downtown lacks—part gallery district, part ballpark neighborhood, with restaurants and bars filling the ground floors of century-old brick buildings around Mears Park.

Baseball shapes the calendar here. On Saints game nights at CHS Field, Lowertown fills with a pre-game crowd and the patios closest to the ballpark turn over fast, so timing matters if you're not headed to the game. The neighborhood is anchored by Union Depot, a major transit hub where the Green Line and buses converge, making it one of the easiest downtown pockets to reach without a car. Parking is more available here than in the government core.

Come summer, Mears Park and the surrounding patios make Lowertown a genuinely pleasant place to linger. Browse the venues below to plan around the ballpark schedule and the district's creative buzz.