It’s the first day of December and I’m sitting here with a hot cup of coffee and a broken left foot from tripping over an old woven wire fence in the leaf litter while deer hunting. Thanksgiving is behind us and I can’t help but to think of warmer days ahead… and reflect on last summer’s…
By Josette Coffman, Stream Team 4617 Recently, I was fortunate enough to have three days to sneak away for a little “river recharge” to the Eleven Point River. The Eleven Point is part of the protected National Wild & Scenic Rivers System managed by the National U.S. Forest Service. It was one of those originally…
Big River at Bootleg Access. Missouri Highway 21 is a very popular highway for vacationers in southeast Missouri. The highway leading from St. Louis to the Arkansas border can take travelers to many of Missouri’s most popular national parks, state parks, conservation areas, and other tourist attractions. Washington State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, Hughes…
I’m going to share with you my all-time favorite canoeing stretch of river. As many readers have already figured out, I call both Eleven Point and the Current River home rivers. Living this close to such pristine floating streams can spoil a person. But I do have my favorite. I have floated nearly every floatable…
Over the years I have spent the first day of the year on some creek or river somewhere in the Ozarks. Little Black, Current River, Sinking Creek, Big Barren and Eleven Point River are some of the streams I have brought in the new year floating on. This year we were back on old faithful…
