MR340
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MR340 Sets 2027 Dates: July 20 to 23, With Registration Opening Jan. 1
The Missouri American Water MR340, the 340-mile paddling race that crosses Missouri from Kansas City to St. Charles, will run July 20 through 23, 2027, according to the race’s official website. Registration opens Jan. 1,…
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Yukon River Quest Opens 2027 Registration Nov. 1 for 715-Kilometer Paddle
Registration for the 2027 Yukon River Quest opens Nov. 1, 2026, for a race that runs June 23 to 26, 2027, from Whitehorse to Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The race covers 715 kilometers,…
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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 river miles to the finish at St. Charles, river mile…
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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 river mile 98. The next official checkpoint is Klondike, 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 river mile 144, with a cutoff of 4 p.m. Thursday.…
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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 — the first official checkpoint since Glasgow, eighty-two river miles…
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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 walk to. The order through here is Boonville, then Rocheport,…
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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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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…