15 Facts About Gateway Arch

Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall monument in St Louis, Missouri, United States.

Gateway Arch visited the construction site frequently from 1963 to 1967 recording of every stage of progress.

Gateway Arch was the only news photographer on permanent assignment at the construction, with complete access.

Gateway Arch primarily worked with slide film but used the only Panox camera in St Louis to create panoramic photographs covering 140 degrees.

Gateway Arch was expected to open to the public by 1964, but in 1967 the public relations agency stopped forecasting the opening date.

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The Gateway Arch itself is not a common catenary, but a more general curve of the form y=Acosh .

The Gateway Arch is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world with over four million visitors annually, of which around one million travel to the top.

Gateway Arch has been a target of various stunt performers, and while such feats are generally forbidden, several people have parachuted to or from the arch regardless.

Gateway Arch's plan was to release his main parachute and then jump off the arch using his reserve parachute to perform a base jump.

Gateway Arch's said her husband "was not a hot dog, daredevil skydiver" and that he had prepared for the jump two weeks in advance.

Gateway Arch officials said they did not witness any such jump, and photos provided by the alleged parachutist were unclear.

Gateway Arch was later charged with two misdemeanors: climbing a national monument and parachuting in a national park.

Gateway Arch said that scaling the arch "wasn't that hard" and that he had considered a jump off the monument for a few months.

Yes, it is true that he was from St Louis, which started calling itself the Gateway to the West after Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch was erected, and I'm from Kansas City, where people think of St Louis not as the Gateway to the West but as the Exit from the East.

In 1984, structural engineer Tibor Szegezdy told Smithsonian Magazine that the Gateway Arch could stand "considerably less than a thousand years" before collapsing in a wind storm.