River Hills Traveler, along with many other fine fishing vendors, will be at the Gateway Center in Collinsville, IL this weekend at the 20th annual Let’s Go Fishing Show.
Traveler publisher Emery Styron will be at show, with the brand new and FREE! 2013 Mo-Go Missouri Guides and Outfitters publications, Current and back issues of [...]

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, [...]

Thanks for the letters. Thoughtful comments from readers are an editor’s most prized reward.
There is so much indifference, inattention and information overload in the world, that a person in this business wonders sometimes if you’re being heard above the noise.
When you get a crop of insightful letters to the editor like we have in this [...]

Now on permanent display in our Photo Gallery: 2010 Traveler Readers Choice winners. Check out this album for our readers picks of the best outdoor, places and people and businesses in Traveler  Country.
Ballots for the 2011 Traveler Readers Choice awards will be published in our September and October issues. Be sure to vote for your favorites [...]

It was the first time Virginia and I had been away from home by ourselves in four or five years. We ran my Traveler newsstand route July 1-2, which gave me a chance to introduce her to some of my favorite people and places in Traveler Country.
I usually make advertising calls along the route, but [...]

By Emery Styron
Publisher, River Hills Traveler
July is here, the heart of the summer outdoor season. If you’re going to get in those fishing, floating, hiking and camping trips, go now before it gets hotter and drier, and before the unexpected pops up to claim your summer.

Jim Anderson of Eminence and I spent a pleasant day last week fishing and floating a stretch of the Jacks Fork River between Bay Creek and Alley Spring.
Jim grew up in Piedmont, earned an ag degree at MU, and worked in agribusiness in Iowa, Kansas and Colorado before buying the Shady Lane Cabins and Motel [...]

Two brothers, two nephews and I enjoyed a beautiful afternoon on the Eleven Point River last Thursday. We put in at Whitten and floated to Riverton, with a stop at the lovely Boze Mill Spring.
Water was a little higher than normal for this time of year and a stiff wind blowing upstream made it a [...]