Gateway Arch National Park Review - The Worst National Park?
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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is a fun place to visit. However, its status as a national park is questionable. What are the best things to do in the Gateway Arch area? Why is it a national park? Find out in this brief review of Gateway Arch National Park.
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If I’m going to a national park, I want to go to a park, not a field and the McDonald’s logo
The one kind thing I can say about this park is that it actually does have a really, really good museum about the history of westward expansion. If it were in the more flexible designation of a National Monument, it could easily be in the top 10. As it is though, it's unfortunately indisputably the worst National Park.
I agree that it’s a great museum and deserves National Memorial status
Visited once. Museum was closed for renovations. Fml lol
Darn, that’s unfortunate.
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It’s a beautiful monument but should’ve never been a park. It sets a dangerous precedent that any famous site that is owned by the govt can be converted to a national park for political or economic reasons. If the Gateway Arch can be a national park, can Yankee Stadium be a national park if the federal government bought the land?
I'll never understand how the Gateway Arch is considered a national park and not some kind of monument or memorial. It's easily the black sheep of all 63 national parks.
Definitely
I think the change was motivated by money, but then it's the Arch. People will come see it regardless. I have asked if the visitor count increased after the change, but I can't recall what their answers were.
Edit: I just Googled it. Statista shows that visitorship did increase drastically in 2018, when it got park status.
Some people say if you drop a water bucket in the arch structure, a gate to the aether will open
Interesting
It's a Monument and very small in acres, thus, it should be a National Monument only. And, National Monuments are cool and usually are very interesting, this one just doesn't cut it as a Big National Park. The museum underground is nice.
I couldn’t agree more.
When I go to the Arch, I park at at one of the free Metrolink parking lots in Illinois. It'sway better than going through the awful traffic in the city and the round trip train ticket only costs $5.
This can be a national monument ?!? But park ?!?! GET OUTTA HERE !
Agreed
It's a decent stop along the way to something better
This was a great video. I totally agree that Gateway Arch is the worst national park, at least of the 17 I've visited. One big disappointment about the park for me is that you can only really see the arch from up close in the park itself, and I know from photos and videos that the arch looks quite beautiful from afar, i.e. across the river or a bit farther into St. Louis, especially during their winter festival when the arch serves as a beautiful backdrop to the public ice skating rink when it's lightly snowing. You're right about the museum being worth visiting--that's one thing the NPS did well. However, the NPS could make this place a lot better by acquiring the land across the river and making a beautiful greenway over there (after eliminating the industry). They could do "little things" like cleaning the windows at the top of the arch so the view is actually worth the trip...it's actually quite embarrassing that the windows are the way they are. Also, I noticed some graffiti on the arch itself when I visited. I'm not sure what the NPS actually does, if they don't remove graffiti or clean windows. Having said all that, though, I actually think that it deserves national park status, not so much because of the architecture but because of what the architecture is meant to commemorate... the westward expansion of the U.S., without which, there would have been no Yellowstone, Yosemite, or Denali.
I went to this around a year ago, not a national park lover, with my hockey team not even knowing it was a national park, but has a great time. It may be a bottom tier park, but still very fun for tourists.
That’s fair. Fun is in the eye of the beholder.
There is one thing I would like you to explore in one of your future videos, that thing being analyzing the future of the national parks due to natural or human events affecting these. For example, I read on the Glacier National Park official website and in the Museum of Science and Industry that Glacier Park originally had 100+ glaciers, some named others unnamed, during the early 1900's, and, in recent years, there are only two dozen of them left, leading to park rangers and conservation experts to change the way the park's infrastructure function. And, unfortunately, the National Park Service may need to revoke Glacier NP, for it will lose the very thing that named it, the very thing people failed to protect.
@keepingitsweet yeah, seeing how a giant ice cubes melt is too political these days. Gotta love the sunburns, at least those are real
The vast majority of the park is manmade. With the recent upgrade of the area. The only area that has been untouched is the far south side of the park.
This should just be a national monument
Great video! I agree this shouldn't be a National park.
Mt. Rushmore is just a memorial, but it has fantastic scenery, and multiple angles to get great pictures. Gateway arch should just be a memorial for the gateway to the west.
Rushmore is significantly better suited for federal protection:
That’s what it used to be until it became a National Park
@@andrewstravels2096 Of all of the beautiful places in Missouri, a manmade structure becomes a NP.
@@charlessapp1835 I agree, go south and there is elephant rocks, Johnson shutins, there are many many Caves in the state as well.
@@eriktruboar1540 If I am in the area I will have to check them out.
This should have been designated as a National Historic Park
Agreed
Hey I'm a St Louisan, don't diss our arch too much! lol But I do agree with you though that it shouldn't be a national park. At the very most it should only just be a National Monument even though I know its pushing the boundaries of even that.
It’s a nice place, but certainly not a great national park
The arch is the worse, lol, not even the river can make up for it
Stop hating on the arch kid. It's your opinion and maybe sometimes you should keep your opinion to yourself.
Let me guess, you’re from STL?
@@vopvoopone no not from St Louis but have been to the Arch fantastic place and architecture. amazing how it was built the story history behind it and no one died in the construction. It is the gateway to the west. I can appreciate beauty in many things from a giant tree to a huge piece of granite to a blue lake and also yes a man made arch .
@@vopvoopone He never said the Arch wasn't cool lol. He's saying it doesn't fit the criteria for a national park, which is true