4 Saint Louis – Route 66

Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis

Missouri – Missouri Old Route 66

4.0 New France & Midlands – Saint Louis Route 66

Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

4.1 Cahokia Mounds (Illinois)

- Monks Mound
- Twin Mounds
- Grand Plaza
- Mound 72
- Woodhenge

Cahokia Courthouse, Cahokia, Illinois

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site

4.2 French Colonial Illinois Country

- Cahokia (population: 12,000)
  - Cahokia Courthouse
  - Holy Family Log Church
  - Jarrot Mansion
- Prairie Du Rocher (population: 500)
  - Fort de Chartres State Historic Site
  - Creole House
- Ellis Grove (population: 300)
  - Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site
  - Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
  - Felix Valle House State Historic Site
  - Modoc Rock Shelter
- Kaskaskia (population: 10-20-ish)
  - Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial

Jean-Baptiste Vallé House, Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park

4.3 Ste. Geneviève

- Population: 5,000
- Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park
  - Jacques Guibourd Historic House
  - Beauvais-Amoureux House
  - Janis-Ziegler Home (Greentree Tavern)
- Felix Valle House State Historic Site
- The Centre for French Colonial Life & the Bolduc House Museum

Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis

4.4 Saint Louis Downtown – Gateway Arch

- City population: 275,000; peak city population 1950: 857,000; metro: 2.8 million
- Gateway to the West
- Mound City
- Gateway Arch National Park (former Jefferson National Expansion Memorial)
  - Gateway Arch
  - Old Courthouse
  - Luther Ely Smith Square
  - Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France
- Gateway Arch Riverboats
- National Blues Museum
- Sugarfire Smoke House Barbecue

Saint Louis Union Station

4.5 Saint Louis Downtown West & Lafayette Park

- Downtown West
  - Saint Louis Union Station
  - The Wheel
  - Aloe Plaza
  - United States Postal Service
  - Saint Louis City Municipal Court
  - Memorial Plaza
  - Stifel Theatre
  - Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
  - Eternal Flame Park
  - Saint Louis City Hal
  - Washington Square Park
  - Poelker Park
  - Serra Sculpture Park
  - Kiener Plaza Park
  - Ballpark Pizza (Saint Louis style thin crust pizza)
  - City Museum
- Lafayette Square
  - Lafayette Park
  - Park Avenue Coffee (gooey butter cake)

Jewel Box, Forest Park, Saint Louis

4.6 Saint Louis Forest Park

- Forest Park (centennial of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 – the St. Louis World’s Fair site)
- City Art Museum – Apotheosis of Saint Louis
- Jewel Box Conservatory
- Colonial Daughter Fountain
- World’s Fair Pavilion
- Nathan Frank Bandstand in Pagoda Lake
- Jefferson Memorial – Missouri History Museum
- George Washington University

Salt + Smoke, Delmar Loop

4.7 Saint Louis – University City – Delmar Loop

- Salt + Smoke Barbecue
- Fitz’s Root Beer Floats
- St. Louis Walk of Fame
- Blueberry Hill (famous Chuck Berry venue)
- Chuck Berry Statue

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard — Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, St. Louis, Missouri, Route 66

4.8 Metro Saint Louis

- The Fabulous Fox Theatre
- Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site
- National Museum of Transportation
- Magic House – St. Louis Children’s Museum
- St. Louis Car Museum
- Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
- Donut Drive-In