Gateway Arch, Lewis & Clark Departure Point, Free Zoo & The Birthplace of Rock and Roll Guitar
📍 St Louis, United States📅 3-day itinerary
The city at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers where 300,000 settlers departed for the Oregon and California Trails in the 1840s-60s — now marked by the 192-metre stainless steel catenary arch that Eero Saarinen designed as the tallest monument in the Western Hemisphere — where the largest brewery complex in the world has been aging Budweiser in beechwood chips since 1880, and where Chuck Berry invented the guitar technique, stage moves and lyrical vocabulary that became the foundational grammar of all rock and roll.
The 4-Minute Tram Ascent Inside a Stainless Steel Catenary Arch to an Observation Room 192 Metres Above the Mississippi River Where the East Windows Show the View Settlers Had When They Left for the West & The Brewery Where Pasteurised Bottled Beer Was Invented in 1880 to Make a Regional Product National
The Only Major Zoo in the United States That Has Charged No Admission for 108 Years Since a 1916 City Referendum Made It a Public Benefit Institution & The Geodesic Dome That Was the First in the World to House a Tropical Rainforest When the Missouri Botanical Garden Opened It in 1960
The Native American City That in 1100 AD Had a Population as Large as Contemporary London with a Central Earthen Mound Larger at the Base Than the Great Pyramid of Giza Built Entirely by Hand Without Wheeled Transport & The Guitar Technique, Stage Moves and Teenage Lyrical Vocabulary That Chuck Berry Invented in St. Louis and Sent Into Space on the Voyager Golden Record