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=[|The St. Louis Arch Website]= =**Little known fact about why I love the Arch...** = I used to work in the ticket office on a Vaudeville Riverboat called “//The Goldenrod//” that was docked right below the Arch. We had dinner, live shows and ragtime music every night. It was awesome!!! I walked by the Arch on my way to work and always marveled at how it changed in different weather conditions and lighting. It really is beautiful!

 == From the top of the Arch you get the best view of beautiful downtown St. Louis! After a rather bumpy ride up to the top in the cramped low-tech “pods” of the tram you arrive at the observation room. You can look over the river eastward into Illinois and out the windows to the west you can see the city’s skyline. ==
 * ====**Did you know that the St. Louis Arch is actually a part of the National Park Service? It's formal name is the Gateway Arch and the name of the national park is the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. **====
 * ====**The park has two components - the Gateway Arch, which is the huge arched steel structure that you can actually ride up to the top of in a little tram and look out over the city from the observation room, and the Museum of Westward Expansion, an underground museum which tells of the construction of the Arch and the history of the pioneers that opened up the western frontier. **====
 * ====**This park is right on the edge of the Mississippi River in bustling downtown St. Louis. All around the park are restaurants, shops and other tourist attractions to visit. For baseball fans, the Cardinals new baseball stadium is only a few blocks away! **====