Guides
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Thirty years on, Rocheport still remembers the water: the Flood of 1993
In the summer of 1993, the Missouri River rose out of its banks and into Rocheport. It was part of the Great Flood of 1993,…
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From Prohibition’s ruin to the bluff tops: Missouri wine’s long road home
A century ago, Missouri was one of the most important wine states in the country. Then Prohibition arrived, the vines came out, and the industry…
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The Katy came to Rocheport: the railroad era before the trail
For nearly a century, the tracks of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad — the “Katy” — ran along the river bluffs through Rocheport. The trains carried freight…
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The Missouri Intelligencer: the frontier newspaper born in our backyard, 1819
Two years before Missouri was a state, a printing press began turning just across the river from where Rocheport now stands. On April 23, 1819,…
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When Rocheport Threw Missouri’s Great Log-Cabin Rally of 1840
Long before it was a Katy Trail stop, our little river town drew steamboats, brass bands and — by some accounts — thousands of people…
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102 Managed Deer Hunts Are Open for Application — Here’s How to Get In
If deer season feels a long way off, the application window for one of the better ways into it is open right now. The Missouri…
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Tick season on the Katy Trail: what a Rocheport hiker should know
If you are heading out on the Katy Trail this month, you are walking straight through tick country. Rocheport sits where the trail runs along…
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Through the Bluff: The Rocheport Tunnel and the Pictographs It Erased
Just west of Rocheport, the Katy Trail does something it does nowhere else along its 240 miles: it goes straight into the bluff. For a…
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Rocheport’s History Museum Is Closed for Renovation — Here’s What’s Still Open
If you were planning to swing by the Rocheport history museum this summer, hold off — it’s closed for renovation. Friends of Rocheport, the nonprofit…
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Live Music on the Bluff: Rocheport’s Summer Music Series Rolls On
If you haven’t been up to the A-Frame Winegarden on a Friday evening this summer, you’re missing the best two hours of the week in…
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