(Van Buren MO) Part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways … Big Spring boiled up, from the base of a limestone cliff, at a rate of 286 million gallons per day. Water temperatures in the spring remains about 55-58 degrees year round. A large, clear pond formed before it flowed into the Current River not […]
(Greer MO) Falling Spring was on the way to my next camp, and about 3 miles down a narrow gravel road into the Mark Twain National Forest. Not a part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, but instead was several miles south. A family from Tennessee had homesteaded the site around 1851. It was an […]
(Ellington to Eminence MO) Part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways … In the morning, I hiked a trail from the campground 2 1/2 miles round trip following the Current River to Blue Spring. Sometimes it was hard to see the path in the dense woods. At other times, it was just one step from […]