Guides
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Every Building on Main Street: How All of Rocheport Ended Up on the National Register
If you’ve ever wondered why nobody’s allowed to slap vinyl siding on a building downtown, here’s the short answer: pretty much the whole town is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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The Brainless Blob on Your Tree: What’s That Slime Mold in Town?
If you’ve walked past a tree stump or a pile of mulch around town this summer and seen something that looks like scrambled eggs —…
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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…
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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…
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