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Ozarkapedia is a community focused on aggregating and preserving information about the Ozarks. Central focus is on public access points for boating, paddling, and fishing, but can easily expand to support hiking, horse trails, SxS routes, and more.

For readers

• Try the Ozark National Scenic Riverways page,
  • and explore the Jacks Fork
    • We have a number of highlights added to the Jacks Fork thanks to the David Lewis Books, and the fact that occasionally someone uploads a photo of his maps online.
  • or the Current River.
• Rootwad added a bunch of photos to the pages around the Meramec.
• The Big River is in pretty good shape
• The Category:River page will list every river we have, as we add them.

For contributors

1. Check out Category:River to see which rivers have been added.
2. Use one of the handy forms to submit a new entry:

• Form:River Access
  • For boat ramps and canoe launches.
• Form:Hazard
  • For hazards that will persist year over year
• Form:Cave
  • If you can see it from the river, or if you can walk to it on publicly from the river
• Form:Spring
  • Springs on or near the river

News

3/5/2026

Added a whole bunch of accesses to the Big River.

3/4/2026

Built Form:River_Access to ease creating and editing river accesses. Similar forms for Bluffs, Springs, Caves, Rapids & Hazards will be built as well.

3/3/2026

• Created HowTo pages for adding a new river and Ozarkapedia:How_to_add_a_new_river_access
• Created Big River, GeoJson:Big River, and Benny Meyer, mile 0 of the Big River

12/31/2025

Updated a bunch of lower Meramec accesses to include more photos.

• Allenton
• Route 66 State Park
• Meramec Levee Park
• Greentree Park
• George Winter Park (still needs more but i got the ramps)
• Flamm City

12/30/2025

Happy holidays! Lots has changed. The Meramec is looking pretty good these days.

• Created templates for
  • Rivers
    • applied to Meramec, Jacks Fork, and Current River
  • Rapids and Hazards
  • Springs
  • Caves
  • Bluffs
  • Include 'sections' property
• Added a bunch of outfitters
  • they are included on maps
  • The pages are stubs that give some data for location and contact, but otherwise direct folks to visit the official website.
• Added all of the "Sections" of the Meramec, up to Short Bend.
  • Visit the Meramec page to see them on a table for browsing
• Created "Distance Charts"
  • Jacks Fork, Current River, and Meramec have them.
  • TODO: Create a python script or lambda to generate the table from an initial set of accesses and milemarkers. Doing this by hand with the wikitable function is tedious and brittle.
• River sections are templatized now, and include maps with POI.

12/17/2025

Rootwad added the last of the accesses on the Meramec that he knows of. There might be a couple bridges or county roads that are still to be found.

• Woodson K. Woods
• Cedar Ford Road
• Klein Ford Road
• Wesco
• Cook Station
• Delcour Crossing
• Short Bend

TODO:

• Add Meramec River Sections
• Color code river accesses by ramp type (Concrete, Gravel, Rough)
• Color code outfitters
• Add licensed concessioners from Ozark National Scenic Riverways to that map along with the Current River and Jacks Fork
• Create templates for
  • Rapids and Hazards
  • Springs
  • Caves
  • Bluffs
• Add highlights to Meramec River

12/16/2025

Ripping down the Meramec, adding accesses:

• 30 Bridge Outfitters
• Redhorse
• Plum Ford Road
• Meramec State Park
• Meramec Caverns
• Sand Ford
• Roaring Spring
• Sappington Bridge
• Blue Springs Creek
• Blue Springs Ranch
• River Round Conservation Area
• Chouteau Claim
• Campbell Bridge
• Onondaga Cave State Park
• Riverview
• Bird's Nest
• Woodson Woods
• Scott's Ford

Added some outfitters on the Meramec, as well:

• Adventure Outdoors Canoeing
• Garrison's River Resort
• The Rafting Co
• Old Cove Canoe and Kayak

12/15/2025

• Started adding Meramec river accesses:
  • Flamm City
  • George Winter Park
  • Meramec Marina
  • Greentree Park
  • Meramec Levee Park
  • Route 66 State Park
  • Allenton
  • Pacific Palisades
  • Robertsville State Park
  • Chouteau Claim

• Created a page for the Meramec

12/14/2025

• The Current River Accesses have all been updated to use the template, and have had a gauge image and link attached.
• Template:River Section now displays a map at the top of the page that will include all other pages and locations that are flagged with the Category:Section Name of that section
• Created all of the Category:Current River Sections and applied a minimal template. TODO:Add gauge data to those sections
• The current river sections now all have gauge data. Each one could use photos and more details, but for now they make fine stub pages.
  • I think I'm mostly done with the Ozark National Scenic Riverways for now, until i get a copy of the David Lewis books or some photos. --Rootwad
• Sharing the Water created with a handful of best practices
• Ozarkapedia:Example:River_Access created as a reference for creating new river access entries

12/13/2025

Updated Template:River Access to house the map and gauge data. The other TODO items remain: Add gauges to the Current River accesses, then update the river section template to hold the map and gauge data like the access template.

12/12/2025

There are now pages for just about all of the accesses along the Current River, and the GeoJson has been updated for all of the Category:Current River Sections. TODO: Add gauge data to the accesses, perhaps update the river access and river section templates to accommodate this info. Create pages for all of the Category:Current River Sections.

A page has been created for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, which contains a map of accesses and sections for both Jacks Fork and the Current River.

12/11/2025

There's a good community of pages around the Jacks Fork now. There are pages for 6 sections of Jacks Fork covering the Prongs at Hwy Y down to Two Rivers Campground east of Eminence.

12/10/2025

• Updated many Jacks Fork River Accesses and river sections to include maps.
• Created Template:River_Section

12/9/2025

The Jacks Fork River Access page now has a map that shows the accesses. Rootwad will add the Jacks Fork River Sections to the map next.

12/8/2025

Rootwad is off on a tear, adding River Access pages. So far he's got all of the Jacks Fork accesses and a big chunk of the Current River accesses.

Jacks Fork has a page now, which can take you to a listing of the river sections, along with the accesses.

Ditto Current River, it links to the River Accesses and Sections