Louis), and westward expansion of the United States. Louis history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition (which began and ended in St. The museum also includes information about St.
This truly was a feat of engineering! There’s also a lot of information on the tram design and operation. It has lots of information on the arch design competition, planning process, and construction. The museum below the arch is well done and very interesting. On the other hand, this was Jeff’s fourth trip to the top! (I guess I expected it to be flat!) It was interesting to be up there that high and look out, and I’m glad I did it…and I do not need to do it again. I also liked how the gallery floor at the top curves along with the arch. I thought the coolest thing from up there was seeing the shadow of the arch on the ground. If you lean forward onto the window it is really like you are leaning out over the ground.
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It has 32 small windows (which can be seen from the outside if you know to look for them) that allow visitors to look straight down to the ground. Once at the top, you exit the tram cars and enter the viewing gallery which spans the top of the arch. Tall people may have to hunch a bit depending on which spot they get in the car. The cars hold five adults, knee to knee (luckily, there were only four in ours!). I (Erin) do not normally find myself fearful of small spaces, but this time I would have to say I was a little unnerved. We traveled to the top of the arch in one of these little cars, and it was an experience. The original system is still in use today. Extremely tricky because of the shape of the arch, I believe it was the first of its kind. The tram car design was created by elevator man named Dick Bowser. Instead, you ride up in a little (and I do mean little) tram car.
(If you’re really into math, you might be interested to know that it takes the shape of an inverted catenary curve!) 1,076 steps climb to the top of the arch … but, luckily, you don’t have to climb the stairs if you want to get to the top – the stairs are for emergency use only. A unique structure, it is 630 feet tall and built out of equilateral steel triangles welded together. The arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. Its small size ensures that you can surely see the whole of it in less than a day.
It consists of the arch and its surrounding grounds, which extend west to include the Old Courthouse and Luther Ely Smith Square. The park itself, on the banks of the Mississippi River, contains only 91 acres, making it – by far – the smallest unit in the NPS system. A recent renovation of the grounds and museum have transformed the park and better connected it to the city.
The monument was established in 1935 to commemorate “Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a transcontinental United States,” and its arch was completed in 1965 (opened to the public in 1967). Louis’s Gateway Arch should have been upgraded to a National Park from its previous National Monument status (and even the Department of the Interior, who oversees the National Park Service, agrees), it is nevertheless an impressive structure and definitely a great tourist destination. Jeff gets artsy with the Arch Evening view of the Gateway Arch Reflections – South Pond
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