Destinations · Illinois
Fairmont City
IL · 38.6497, -90.0931
From Fairmont City, Illinois, Byway's registries place 6 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
Understand
The village is only about 5 minutes from the world-famous Gateway Arch of St. Louis. Sunset often provides picturesque views of the arch and St. Louis' skyline. Collinsville Road, once known as the National Road, runs the length of the village. Along this route there is an accumulation of vintage, in situ roadside Americana advertising signage that is unsurpassed in the area.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic National Road - Illinois · inside · national
- Great River Road · 3 mi · national
- Historic Route 66 · 6 mi · national
- Historic Route 66 - MO · 8 mi
- Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route · 13 mi · national
- Great River Road - Missouri · 18 mi
National parks
- Gateway Arch National Park · 5 mi
Lookouts
- Mississippi River Overlook · 5 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 1 · 8 mi
- 7 Gates of Hell: Gate 2 · 9 mi
- Mounted Binculors · 9 mi
Named places
- Rattlesnake Mound · 2 mi
- Monks Mound · 2 mi
- Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center · 2 mi
- Katherine Dunham Museum · 3 mi
- Saltue to Steel · 5 mi
- Lewis and Clark in Illinois · 5 mi
- Big Mound Monument · 5 mi
- Clarks Mound · 5 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site · 2 mi
- East St. Louis · 3 mi
- Granite City · 5 mi
- Collinsville · 6 mi
- Cahokia · 8 mi
- St. Louis · 8 mi