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Celebrate Saint Louis

St. Louis, MO · Holiday

When

July 3–4, 2027

Where

Gateway Arch grounds · St. Louis · MO

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Celebrate Saint Louis, long known as Fair Saint Louis, fills the Gateway Arch grounds each Fourth of July weekend with concerts and a fireworks show launched from barges on the Mississippi River. It is the region's largest annual civic celebration, run for decades under a series of names. Organisers had not yet posted 2027 dates; those below follow the event's consistent July 3 to 4 pattern.

The history within reach

• GO! St. Louis Marathonsame spot

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• Celebrate Saint Louissame spot

  Celebrate Saint Louis, long known as Fair Saint Louis, fills the Gateway Arch grounds each Fourth of July weekend with concerts and a fireworks show launched from barges on the Mississippi River.

• The Gateway Archsame spot

  Eero Saarinen won the competition partly by accident, the telegram went to his father Eliel first.

• The Great Fire that burned the steamboats0.2 mi

  A fire on the steamer White Cloud got loose from its moorings and took twenty three boats with it, then went ashore and burned fifteen blocks of the business district.

• Dred Scott sues at the Old Courthouse0.3 mi

  Scott and his wife Harriet filed here for freedom on the grounds that they had been held in free territory.