Guides
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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,…
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Second Saturdays in Rocheport: A Monthly Market Worth Planning Around
On the second Saturday of the month, April through October, Rocheport's historic downtown fills with pop-up vendors, live music, and an easy, unhurried crowd. Admission's…
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The Rocheport Chocolate Crawl: A Sweet February Tradition
Each February, Rocheport's shops, cafés, galleries, and inns each set out a chocolate treat for a self-guided crawl through downtown. It sells out, so plan…
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Shopping Rocheport: The Complete Guide to Local Shops, Studios, and Hidden Finds
Rocheport packs artisan shops, a candle bar, an instrument shop, wine tasting, and a quiet gallery of Japanese ceramics into a few walkable blocks. Here's…
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Rocheport’s Annual Crush Festival: Grape Stomping at Les Bourgeois Vineyards
Les Bourgeois Vineyards celebrates 40 years with the Crush Festival on September 28 — free admission, grape stomping, live music, and fall fun for the…
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The Big Bur Oak at McBaine: How to Visit Missouri’s Champion Tree
A couple miles northwest of McBaine, alone in a field with nothing else within a thousand feet of it, stands a tree old enough to…
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Lewis and Clark Through Rocheport: What the Journals Actually Saw at the Manitou Bluffs
On the morning of June 7, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition worked its keelboat and pirogues past the limestone bluffs just west of what’s…
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The Santa Fe Trail for Automobiles: Driving the Historic Corridor from Old Franklin to Arrow Rock
Most people who’ve heard of the Santa Fe Trail picture it out west — wagon ruts in the Kansas prairie, adobe walls in New Mexico.…
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Wassail Walk: Rocheport’s Most Beloved Holiday Tradition
Rocheport's annual Wassail Walk brings warm spiced cider, Santa, a Christmas tree lighting, and candlelit storefronts to one of Missouri's most charming downtowns.
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