CANCELLED FOR NOW: The Jacks Fork cleanup sponsored by Stream Team 714 and the Scenic Rivers Stream Team Association for today has been cancelled. The river is closed and Alley Campground is closed after an 8-foot rise on the river on Friday, according to Pat Haviland, one of ST 714’s organizers. She says to let [...]

Two announcements today affect public use along the Lower Current River.
First, Faye Walmsley announced that Ozark National Scenic Riverways has reopened the Big Spring Campground for camping. The roadways in the Big Spring campground, lodge and cabin areas were repaved and a new culvert and road surface installed. “The repaving and [...]

The River Hills Traveler Float Trip Guide 2013 is now online. A big 20 all-color pages, we cover more rivers than ever before, including Emery’s childhood hangout, the Elk in southwest Missouri, and the Buffalo River in Northwest Arkansas. This
Did we miss your favorite stream? Tell us and we’ll try to go there next [...]

LITTLE ROCK, AR— Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes today announced that the White River, along with its watershed, has been named the nation’s second National Blueway. Hayes was joined by Senator Mark Pryor, Congressman Tim Griffin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Terrence “Rock” Salt, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture Ann Mills, [...]

Vilander Bluff offers cave to explore, scenic view

By Emery Styron
A pair of normally hardworking, middle-aged newspaper guys sneaked out for a fall day of loafing on the Meramec River today and found it much to their liking

Don Corrigan and I met at the crack of 9 a.m. to fortify ourselves with ham, eggs, biscuits, gravy, [...]

It’s been a while coming, but below are links to video taken of raft building at Deer Leap Recreation Area on Sept. 1 of the tie-raft reenactment: (about 2 and a half minutes) and a slideshow of the entire day (select shots out of the 300 plus we took: slide show time about 4 [...]

By Jo Schaper
Rain pelted the dark expanse of Hwy. 21 entering Carter County, and as we turned south from U.S. 60, hordes of frogs hopped maniacally, flashes of green-white in the headlights over the steaming pavement. Gusts of wind caught the car, and by the time we got to the motel in Doniphan, [...]

At Traveler we get this question about which outfitters will shuttle either vessels or vehicles quite often. We’re happy to pass along a link to a comprehensive story on this topic, from the Springfield News-Leader.

Who does private canoe shuttles? Why or why not?

By Jo Schaper
Midway through last year, I was talking with Eleanor Maggard of Akers Ferry Canoe Rental, when Eleanor requested that Traveler warn our readers about the dangers of a double-dare fad being engaged in by Current River floaters, almost all tipsy young men. The dare involved eating live or at least newly [...]

When the 6 o’clock weathergal just won’t do….
By Jo Schaper
Unlike a friend of mine, I could never watch The Weather Channel for the plot or the eye candy “meteorologists” reading from the teleprompter, repeating the same information for hours, with 95% of the conditions being for New York, or L.A. or Baraboo, Wisconsin.
When [...]