A Family Trip to Gateway Arch National Park
For mother's Day 2024 I drug my mom across four states and ended up in Saint Louis to see the arch and go up to the top of the 630-foot stainless steel arch!! The night we headed north there was an super active solar flare that let the aurora be seen in the south. This was our view at night from Union City TN!
First Stop Park Sign Photos!!
We got tickets to go up to the top. The journey started with an interactive video and then we entered the que to to the tram capsules! The system uses capsules that rotate like a Ferris wheel while ascending the arch rotating about 155 degrees during the five ish minutes trip to the top. We were able to look out the windows at the top and stand at the highest point! The museum exhibits were amazing and provided a lot of information!! This is the smallest national park in the USA and definitely can be accomplished in an afternoon!
We walked through the park at night and we got to see some of the rangers out with tell scopes!
Alright so I gotta agree with the masses while I think this is a great nps site I don't think it really hits a home run as a national park. The monument we know today began in 1935, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated property along the St. Louis riverfront to be developed as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. In 1940, the City of St. Louis deeded the Old Courthouse to the National Park Service and it was incorporated into the Memorial. It became the 60th national park on February 22, 2018 and was renamed the
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