L.Bine has partnered with the National Park Foundation to help you find your happy place.

And with more than 400 national parks, there's a good chance you'll find one close to home.

Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. Halfway down the mighty Mississippi, a model of engineering greets the world

to the Lion of the Valley, the gateway to the West, St Louis Missouri. Today on America's the Gateway Arch National Park National Park

Gateway Arch National Park and its namesake Architectural

Wonder that's like no other on earth.

The gateway arch has always inspired me.

I'm a sucker for structures that make a statement. The Gateway Arch has always inspired me.

I'm a sucker for structures that make a statement about a city.

Seattle's Space Needle, the Chrysler Building, the White House, Independence Hall.

I grew up about seven hours up river from St. Louis and seeing that

silver gleam on our annual trips to one of my favorite cities still gets my heart

racing today. The gateway arch is known worldwide. It's probably second

only to the Statue of Liberty, but how much do you actually know about its history?

It's wild and it parallels much of the 20th century. Here's Abigail Trebeu. So, In 1933, amidst the pains of the Great Depression, civic leader Luther Eli Smith looked

upon the industrial St Louis Riverfront and envisioned a project that

would stimulate the town's economy, a large memorial to commemorate the people who made the

Western expansion of the United States possible.

People like President Jefferson, his aides Livingston and Monroe, explorers Merriweather Lewis and William Clark, and the

territories hunters, trappers, and pioneers. He approached Mayor Bernard Dickman

who brought it up in a meeting with city leaders.

They endorsed the idea in the nonprofit Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association, or Jenny May, as they called it. and As with most projects of this sort, locals did not approve of exhausting public funds for such a cause.

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