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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Heat, Humidity, and a Falling River: What MR340 Racers Are Walking Into This Week
If you’ve driven past Cooper’s Landing this week and wondered why the water looks lower than usual, you’re not imagining it. The Missouri River gauge at Boonville read 7.03 feet Sunday morning, well under flood…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 2: Lexington to Waverly
Roughly a day’s paddling downstream from the Kaw Point start, MR340 racers pass two of the river’s oldest Missouri towns: Lexington and Waverly. Neither is a place most spectators think about, but both carry real…
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Fifteen Miles Downriver: What’s Actually at Cooper’s Landing
If you’ve lived here a while, you’ve probably told a visitor to “just head down to Cooper’s Landing” without stopping to explain what that actually means. Here’s the fuller picture of what’s downstream. Cooper’s Landing…
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Sharing the channel: barges and paddler safety on the Missouri
The Missouri River isn’t a race course that happens to have other traffic on it — it’s a working river that the MR340 borrows for a few days every summer. Barges, towboats, and other commercial…
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Chasing the Reaper: The MR340’s Rolling Cutoff, and the Crew Who Run It
If you’re one of the more than 600 paddlers checking in at Kaw Point in Kansas City on Monday, you already know about the Reaper. If you’re planning to watch from our stretch of the…
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Late-July Heat and a Low River: What the 2026 MR340 Is Paddling Into
Whatever else this year’s Missouri River 340 brings, two things are already locked in before the first paddle ever touches water Tuesday: it’s going to be brutally hot, and the river itself is running lower…
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Jumping silver carp: the MR340’s flying-fish hazard
If you’ve ever seen a video of a fish leaping clean out of the Missouri River and smacking a boater in the chest, there’s a good chance it was a silver carp. This week, hundreds…
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Why 340 miles? Inside the MR340’s paddling culture
Three hundred forty miles, nonstop, no support crew allowed to touch your boat, on a river that doesn’t stop moving just because you’re tired. Why would anyone sign up for that? The Missouri River 340…
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Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 1: Kaw Point & the Kansas City start
Every mile of the MR340 tells a story before the race ever gets there. We’re running this course mile by mile over the next two weeks, starting at the beginning: Kaw Point, where the Kansas…
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How to follow the MR340 live
The Missouri River 340 starts Tuesday morning at Kaw Point in Kansas City, and by the time paddlers reach our stretch of the river, most of them will have been on the water for a…