MR340
MR340 coverage from Rocheport: the 340-mile Missouri River race, its checkpoints, paddlers, results and what it takes to finish.
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MR340 Sets 2027 Dates: July 20 to 23, With Registration Opening Jan. 1
The Missouri American Water MR340, the 340-mile paddling race that crosses Missouri from Kansas City to St. Charles, will run July 20 through 23, 2027, according to the race’s official website. Registration opens Jan. 1,…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 9: Klondike to the Finish
Klondike is the last checkpoint the MR340 puts on the water. It sits at river mile 56, and below it the course runs twenty-seven more river miles to the finish at St. Charles, river mile…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 8: Hermann to Klondike
Below Hermann, the Missouri River gives MR340 racers one long run with nothing required in the middle of it. Hermann is an official checkpoint at river mile 98. The next official checkpoint is Klondike, at…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 7: Jefferson City to Hermann
Downstream from the Jefferson City checkpoint the Missouri River opens up, and for forty-six river miles it does not close again. Jefferson City sits at river mile 144, with a cutoff of 4 p.m. Thursday.…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 6: Cooper’s Landing to Jefferson City
Below Cooper’s Landing the course leaves this paper’s stretch of the Missouri River and does not come back. Twenty-six river miles downstream is Jefferson City — the first official checkpoint since Glasgow, eighty-two river miles…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 5: Franklin Island to Cooper’s Landing
Downstream from Franklin Island, the Missouri runs twenty-five river miles past our own front door — the only stretch of this series the paper can walk to. The order through here is Boonville, then Rocheport,…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 4: Glasgow to Franklin Island
Downstream from Glasgow, the Missouri keeps unspooling toward home — and this stretch is the one where the MR340 course finally starts feeling like ours. Glasgow sits at river mile 226, one of the race’s…
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The Remade River: How the Army Corps Channelized the Missouri
The Missouri River gauge at Boonville read 7.58 feet this morning, well under flood stage and still falling — a calm, ordinary river day. But “calm and ordinary” is itself the product of nearly a…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 3: Miami to Glasgow
Downstream from Lexington and Waverly, the MR340 course keeps unspooling through Missouri’s midsection, and this stretch brings racers past two more towns that shaped the river long before anyone thought to paddle it for sport:…
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As Flash Floods Get Meaner, Mid-Missouri Fire Crews Retrain for the Water
If you’ve watched a summer storm turn a low-water crossing near the river bottoms into something you wouldn’t want to cross, you already understand why Columbia Fire Department and the Boone County Fire Protection District…