Eminence Roundtrip Ozarks Hellbender
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RouteXpert René Plücken (MRA Master)
Last edit: 22-05-2025
Route Summary This 110-mile ride offers some of the best curvy driving in Missouri. With nearly 300 turns, you'll find this ride not only beautiful but also thrilling to the senses.
Along the route there are options to explore the beautiful Current River and its surroundings by canoe or raft.
This route is short, but beautiful and deserves 4 stars.
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Duration
5h 0m
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Car or motorcycle
Distance
181.59 km
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RouteXpert Review With almost 300 bends you will find this ride not only beautiful but also exciting for the senses. You will ride through a beautiful area with a number of sights and places where you can do activities such as hiking, fishing and canoeing.
I have indicated a number of sights along the route with a route point and POI.
The Round Spring and Cave offers great formations and caves. The Round Spring area is home to a family campground, picnic area, and caves that offer guided hikes.
Aker's Ferry and Canoe Rental, rents canoes, tubes, cabins. They also have a swimming pool, restaurant, shop, hot showers, modern toilets and electricity. Here you can make a nice canoe trip on the Current river and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
Montauk Springs and State Park is a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) public recreation area on the Current River southwest of Salem, Missouri. The park contains a fish hatchery and is known for its rainbow and brook trout fisheries. The park has several natural springs, including Montauk Spring.
Summersville Grist Mill was built in 1886 when Jim McCaskill purchased and installed machinery for the mill. The mill produced flour from soft wheat and provided farmers with a place to have their wheat ground without having to travel. The Summersville Mill has undergone a major restoration in recent years, thanks to the Summersville Revitalization and Action Board and the many community volunteers who worked on the project. Tours are by appointment only.
Alley Spring Grist Mill is a short walk from the parking lot. The current building was built in 1893-1894 by George Washington McCaskill as a merchant mill. It was larger than most of the mills in the Jacks Fork area and replaced an earlier mill on the same site that had been built in 1868. The mill was originally unpainted, but was first painted white with green trim and later the famous red color associated with Alley Mill today. It is located on a lake in a beautiful setting and is well worth a visit.
From Alley Spring it is about another 30 minutes drive to the end of this beautiful ride in Eminence.
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