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The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) [2] while wandering 218 miles (351 km) [3] from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River ...
Huzzah Creek (locally / ˈ h uː z ɑː /) is a 35.8-mile-long (57.6 km) [3] clear-flowing stream in the southern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. [4] According to the information in the Ramsay Place Names File at the University of Missouri, the creek's name "is evidently derived from" Huzzaus, one of the early French versions of the name of the Osage people.
The River des Peres (French: rivière des Pères) (English: / d ʌ ˈ p ɛər /) is a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) [1] metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and storm water systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County. Its largest tributaries are Deer Creek and Gravois Creek. At St. Louis, the ...
The American Plunge's theme is centered on Ozark daredevilry. The trip is a race to the plunge. Along the way you encounter others trying to beat you to the summit. Your opponents are facing obstacles of their own, tumbling off cliffs, broken boat and a whirlpool. You yourself become the hero by defying the plunge and turn into a legend.
The most common way to visit the White Cliffs area, including LaBarge Rock is to float this section of the Missouri River. The White Cliffs section of the river may be boated in one long day trip, from Coal Banks Landing (BLM mile-mark 41) to Judith Landing (BLM mile-mark 88) if a motorized boat is utilized, [ 17 ] or during a more relaxed ...
The Rivers around St. Louis. St. Louis is located at 1] The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet (30–61 m) above the western banks of the Mississippi River, just south of the Missouri-Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features low hills and broad, shallow ...
The McBarge anchored in Burrard Inlet near Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2006. The McBarge, officially named the Friendship 500, is a former McDonald's restaurant, built on a 187-foot-long (57 m) [1] barge for Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia
First introduced in 1980 as the Kansas City Mule and St. Louis Mule, the Missouri River Runner received its current name in 2009. As of 2023, there are two daily round trips between Kansas City and St. Louis, with one continuing north to Chicago Union Station as a Lincoln Service train. These services fall under the Amtrak Midwest brand.