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Covering roughly 42,000 acres, the Rocky Creek Conservation Area is a beautiful stretch of Shannon County. The Ozark Trail runs through its heart, along with several side trails that wind through piney ridges and rocky hollows, offering quiet places to camp and water sources along the way. It’s the kind of terrain that makes hiking in the Ozarks a rewarding, immersive experience.

The Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry is a 62,000-acre expanse of privately owned forest managed for public hiking and backpacking by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. It’s part of the Pioneer Forest, a conservation legacy of Leo Drey, and includes beautiful old-growth areas, peaceful streams, caves, and over 60 miles of trails like the Blair Creek and Brushy Creek loops. Named for conservationist Roger Pryor, the backcountry offers a unique and fantastic primitive wilderness experience in the heart of the Ozarks.

The Blair Creek Section of the Ozark Trail stretches about 27 miles through the remote Roger Pryor Backcountry, tracing ridgelines and descending into the lush, wildflower-filled valley of Blair Creek. It follows the creek south to the bluffs above the Current River, with some of the most stunning river views on the entire trail. With old home sites, springs, and a mix of ridge and valley hiking, it’s a moderately challenging section, but the reward is worth the trek.

The beautiful Current River flows for about 184 miles, starting from Montauk Springs and winding through the Ozark Plateau before merging with the Black River on the Missouri–Arkansas border. Its crystal-clear, spring-fed water carves through stunning limestone bluffs and lush oak-hickory forest, creating an ideal habitat for abundant trout. Protected in 1964 as part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways—the first national park unit set aside for a river—it’s a popular destination for canoeing, fishing, and wilderness camping.

A natural cascading waterfall that flows over molten rock that erupted to the surface 1.5 billion years ago. The falls expeience a heavy flow after it rains. The site is very popular and has bathrooms, picnic tables, and fire grills.

This is a small turbine mill built in 1928 by Walter Klepzig. The mill is located in a beautiful setting on Rocky Creek that is surrounded by a shut-in canyon that is formed by the rock in the creek.

This trails leads down to the Current River and the Cave Spring Cave. The spring rises into a large cave opening that goes to a vertical shaft 140 feet deep. Water from the Devils Well up the trail is a sourcce of the spring.