While passing through Missouri on the Great River Road adventure, one of the planned destinations was the Gateway Arch on the St. Louis riverfront.  I've travelled the greater state of Missouri many times in the past but I had never been to the St. Louis area.  And my naïveté is embarrassingly evident by the fact that I thought the Gateway Arch spanned across the Mississippi River.  Now having seen it in person I see that it would have been one heck of an engineering marvel to get the arch to cross the river at nearly a mile wide.

Enjoy the photographs (click thumbnails for larger view)..

2009 Gateway Arch The Gateway Arch.	2009 Gateway Arch Another perspective of the Gateway Arch.	2009 Gateway Arch The sun hiding behind the Gateway Arch.
2009 Gateway Arch Bart, Molly & Grandma Norvina at the Gateway Arch.	2009 Gateway Arch Molly & Grandma Norvina at the Gateway Arch riverfront.	2009 Gateway Arch Graffitied flood wall beneath the MacArthur Bridge.