Guides
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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.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area: The Wetland Worth the Detour Off the Katy Trail
If you’ve pedaled the Katy Trail west toward Columbia this month, you’ve probably noticed something tall and slate-blue standing dead-still in the shallows, waiting for…
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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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