Guides
-
Rocheport Food Guide: Where to Eat and Drink This Fall
Rocheport is small, a few hundred people between the Missouri River bluffs and the Katy Trail, but you can eat and drink well here, whether…
-
Parking and Shuttles for a Katy Trail Ride From Rocheport
Where to leave the car, what to do when the Rocheport lot is full, and how to ride one way and still get home. A…
-
The Gift That Started at Rocheport: How the Katy Trail Came to Be
Every rider who rolls out of Rocheport on the Katy Trail is tracing the very first stretch of trail Missouri ever opened — and the…
-
Boonville’s Liberty Sister Finally Got Her Shine Back
If you’ve driven past the Cooper County Courthouse in Boonville, you’ve probably walked right by her without a second look — an 8-foot copper Statue…
-
Bluff Views and Photo Spots Around Rocheport
The best views of the bluffs, the river and the fall color around Rocheport, and where to stand for them. Most of them are free.
-
Take the Rocheport Heritage Trail: A Free Walking Tour on Your Phone
You can walk Rocheport’s history with nothing more than your phone. The Rocheport Missouri Heritage Trail on Clio, a free online guide to historical sites,…
-
Rocheport to Boonville on the Katy Trail: A Ride Across the River
Rocheport to Boonville is 13.5 flat miles of bluffs, bottomland and a crossing of the Missouri River. Here's how to ride it, where to stop,…
-
The River Tribe: Why Hundreds Take On 340 Miles of the Missouri Every Summer
Every summer, a few hundred people put a canoe or kayak in the Missouri River at Kansas City and don’t plan on getting out again…
-
Mile by Mile on the Missouri: Rocheport
Rocheport doesn’t creep up on you on the Katy Trail — you round a bend past the old railroad grade and the bluffs are just…
-
How Boone County Won Missouri’s University in 1839 — and Howard County Almost Did
Every fall, Columbia fills up with students who probably never think twice about why the University of Missouri is here and not somewhere else in…
New guides land in the weekly email — sign up and get them as they're published. Sign up →