Midwest Region

St. Louis, Missouri

• St. Louis Missouri

 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri is known as the Gateway to the West.  Look here for more information and photos about the Gateway Arch.  Click Here

• Farm State of Iowa   also known as the Tall Corn State.  Click here to learn more about IOWA.   
• Dodge City, Kansas - A great symbol of the West.  Click here to get more information.

• South Dakota, Mount Rushmore
  • Carved into the southeast face of a mountain in South Dakota are the faces of four presidents, a memorial to American history. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln look down from their stoney heights and remind everyone that even the impossible is possible. To learn more, click here.

• Michigan's Soo Locks  
• Watching the huge vessels pass through the Soo locks is a unique experience that cannot be seen anywhere else in the United States.  
  • To learn more, click here or here.
• Detroit , Michigan
• Detroit People Mover exiting Renaissance Center.
  • Known as the Motor City, click here for more information about Detroit.
    
    
    
• Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
•   This airport is located in Chicago, Illinois and is the largest hub of American Airlines. Click here for more.

• Minnesota's Mall of America

Click here to learn more about the mall with an amusement park built inside. 

• Did you know?
  
  • 258 Statues of Liberty could lie inside the Mall
  • If Mount Rushmore was divided into individual monuments, a president could reside in each of the Mall's four courts
  • Mall of America is big enough to hold 32 Boeing 747s
  • Seven Yankee Stadiums can fit inside Mall of America
  • If a shopper spent 10 minutes browsing at every store, it would take them more than 86 hours to complete their visit to Mall of America
  • There is no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota

• Indianapolis, Indiana is home to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Traveling the Midwest can be fun in a crop duster! 

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