My favorite view of St. Louis is from Page and Dielman Ave. out in Overland. The reason being that all you can see it the top of the arch. That’s about all I can stand to look at in St. Louis. I shouldn’t be so negative. St. Louis looks good to me when returning from a long trip coming in Hwy.64 in Illinois. You can see the arch and most of the good part of town from quit a few miles out. Seeing it lets me know I’m getting closer to home in St. Charles Co.

In my rear view mirror.

My best view of downtown St. Louis was coming in to land on the levee at sunset on an early summer day after a pleasuer cruise on the river. We came up river on the east side and then turned into dock.

It was awesome. The sunset was shining off the buildings, we were just above river level looking up. Eads bridge was in view (Poplar Street bridge was not) with all of the downtown riverfront.

So from the east side I would say directly opposite the arch or slightly downstream 20 degrees.

I won’t say on the blogs because it will then become too populated. But there are many places on the east side that offer great views of the place of my birth. Please keep the concrete on the west side guys! No offense, but they ain’t making any more farmlands! Not even for da pope…

From the window seat of any departing plane heading due….well, anywhere else I guess.

In my rear view mirror.
— GatewayToTheWorst

That answer cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh!

Oh, and another thing. There should be a ferry from the riverfront across to this new observation point and back with a docent, and a variety of rental cassesttes on different topics about the riverfront and the expansion west.

It will encourage interaction with the river, and give people something to do, and promote a transformed view of the riverfront in just an hour or two without having to get in your car, treavel, park, get out again, yadya yada…

Oh, there should be a cash bar. I took a tour of the New Orleans harbor which was awesome and they had these great Bloody Mary’s with okra.

Sometimes there should be music and entertainment, and it should connect to the highway system so people can drop off and pick up on there way through. (Somebody would have to be a driver. Imagine your driving through on your way to somewhere else, and there is an opportunity to stop, get out and look, ride across and back and keep going, or ride across and be picked up or even walk to work or to a baseball game. So it should have shuttles to Metrolink.

Okay I’ll stop. Making use of our city’s greatest natural geographic feature is like falling off a log.

The view from the top of the Casino Queen was great. I haven’t been there since they opened the new version, but I’m assuming it’s all inside, ruining that little nicety.

I’d rather look at any part of the city than that ugly sin of a place that is I70 through St. Charles. Ugh. Outer roads, car dealers, and strip malls. Lovely.

The top of the University Club tower in Richmond Heights. Based in Clayton, the “new downtown,” you can clearly see the city, south city, south county, west county, and north county. Plus the Metrolink line on the old Terminal RR. Kind of neat to see the light rail trains roll over the cross-county extension. Looks like a model train layout from way up there!

OOH John you hurt me bad. Just remember that there is a real reason that anything outside of the St. Louis City limits is booming. I lived in that rat hole for a long time. I have just in the last few years have been able to say that I’m from St. Peters instead of St. Louis when I’m traveling. It’s hard to break old habits. St. Louis has some of the neatest building in it. It just the dirt around them. This is off topic but I had to throw it in.