Today we entered Missouri and then walked to Illinois and back to Missouri before spending the day mostly in St. Louis.
We started our day only minutes from the Chain of Rocks Bridge in Illinois, but to park and walk across the bridge we had to take the long way around to the Missouri side.
After we walked to Illinois and back to the car, we drove to Gateway Arch National Park. As we have visited many times before, we just stopped in quickly for national park stamps (and ended up with the Mini Building Block set).
Before continuing back on Route 66, we walked over to the Old Courthouse for more national park stamps and spent some time going through the exhibits as we had not visited there before.
Back on Route 66, we stopped at Ted Drewe’s Frozen Custard, which was refreshing with today being another very unseasonable hot and humid day (it was up to feeling like 112!).
After lunch, we headed over to the National Museum of Transportation. We spent over an hour exploring here, but due to the heat and humidity we did not linger and really see as much of it as we would have liked and only briefly checked out some of the outdoor exhibits. At least the Route 66 stuff was indoors.
Our last planned stop of the day was at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, where we got a brief tour of the home and grounds (tour was shorter than usual due to heat advisory) before enjoying the very well air conditioned musuem.
Originally, we planned to just do the I-44 Route 66 alignment to the KOA for the night, but ended up deciding to take the more scenic original 1926-1932 alignment. There really was not much to see on this alignment, but we did find a Route 66 Shield Monument in Kirkwood.
We also made a brief photo stop at the Big Chief Roadhouse in Wildwood, MO.
See full list of Our Route 66 Adventures here and Google map here.
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