Chain of Rocks Bridge

Unusual Bridge and Part of the Old Route 66

As others have noted, the Chain of Rocks Bridge is part of the original Route 66. It must have been a real engineering achievement in its day - a mile-long bridge crossing one of the greatest rivers i...

A bust

Everything was all torn up with construction on the Missouri side. I don't think there would be a safe way to walk through to the bridge. We were running short on time on a blistering hot day so we ...

Cool little walk of history

I read about this in a Route 66 travel book and decided to check it out. From STL you have to go to Illinois to park since it’s considered safer. We used the GPS and it originally led us to an abandon...

If you are driving Route 66 do not miss this, you will regret it!

We visited as part of our drive of Route 66 and came across this completely unplanned. It is so awe inspiring I wrote a post on my blog to explain how memorable and surprising this old bridge, it’s p...

Beautiful bridge.

Very cool piece of history. Be sure to walk across the bridge, 1 mile each way. Park on the Illinois side and walk across. They are working on improving the St. Louis side. Currently there is a port a...