This weeks maze was one that sat on the shelf for over 3 years. I started my maze of the Gateway Arch and abandoned it as I executed it poorly, then tried to fix it, then forgot about it to work on other things. The main problem with the maze the first time around was that the maze type did not fit the structure I was making it in. Here is a collection of mazes that I abandoned, including this one:

Why I abandoned these 10 mazes - Mistakes in Maze making

Well I finally went back and re-did the maze, and it has become my maze of the week #183.

As far as the Gateway Arch is concerned, it is a 630 ft tall monument in St. Louis, Missouri, located on the the bank of the Mississippi River. It is the tallest arch in the world. You can read all about it on Wikipedia, or watch this documentary about it’s construction:

Back to mazes. Here is the original maze that I abandoned because it was not good enough to publish or strong enough to finish.

And here is the improved and final maze that includes a new maze and much more detail of the St Louis skyline. The maze construction works much better than before, but the maze is easy enough for kids because the arch is so skinny (relatively) that I only used 3 blocks for the width making the number of choices a maze solver needs to make low.

I think you agree this is a much better illustration and maze. The maze is available to download on the homepage.