Boiling Spring Campground (BSC Outdoors) is located on the Gasconade River. We offer fun family camping, cabin rentals, float trips, great fishing trips, and swimming directly from our property. We have float trip options available on the Big Piney and Gasconade Rivers to fit all of your paddlesport outdoor adventure expectations. Canoe, raft, kayak, tube, Jon boat… you name it. BSC Outdoors is a great place to kick back and relax on your next trip to the Missouri Ozarks!In the past, Boiling Spring had a river resort atop the bluff used the spring for water, utilizing a "sky well" bucket arrangement to draw water. The developed overlook used for this purpose is visible from the river. The spring is allegedly a good fishing hole when the river is low.Spring rises in the bottom of the Gasconade River, in a visible boil along the eastern bank, at the base of a tall bluff. At low river flow, the bottom of the spring can be seen churning gravel. The spring water reportedly is often clear at times when the river is murky or muddy. Divers have been to 1800 feet plus and 175 feet depth in this spring. There is some dispute over the volume of this spring. As with other river bottom springs, only an above/below difference measurement can be taken, and true maximums are hard to get. One recent researcher gives an average daily flow of 80 million gallons for this spring.
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Hooker Cut
The new Route 66 alignment built between 1941 and 1943 to improve the safety and eliminate the congestion along the "old" alignment through Hooker and Devil's Elbow had a straight alignment instead of winding around the hills, it went through them. This required a great cut through a high ridge east of the Big Piney River: Hooker Cut.The engineers at the Fred Weber Construction Co. of St. Louis developed a new technique that is still in use today: they terraced the rock walls to keep falling rocks from hitting the highway or the vehicles on it.The 90 foot-deep cut was the deepest road cut in America for many years.
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Sugar Bowls
Because of their shape - the Sugar Bowls were once listed by the State Planning Commission as one of Missouri's "beauty spots". Located in Devils Elbow.
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Wooden Railroad Trestle Overlook
The view overlooking the Big Piney River and the 1940's railroad trestle, also known as Schoolhouse Bridge, is simply stunning.
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Shanghai Spring (or Blue Spring) - PRIVATE PROPERTY
Shanghai Spring (or Blue Spring) is a spring in Missouri and has an elevation of 725 feet. Shanghai Spring is situated south of Morgan Heights.Please be respectful and only snap a shot of this beautiful area, from the road. DO NOT enter the property.
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Riddle Bridge, Public Access, Saint Robert MO
Riddle Bridge area is a public access to the Gasconade River. The former bridge was replaced with the truss bridge over Gasconade River on Holtsman Road beyond the end of Route Y. Riddle Bridge was a Pennsylvania (Petit) span with timber stringer approach spans on each end. The metal truss was unique within Missouri because each alternate laced vertical member (numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9) extended only half the distance from the upper chord to the lower chord. A single eyebar was pinned to the end of the half-length laced member; the eyebar continued to a panel point connection at the lower chord. Riddle Bridge was fabricated by the Canton Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio.
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Fort Waynesville Overlook
During the Civil War, Pulaski County alliances were mostly clear in the East, loyalties were much hazier in Pulaski County. Missouri was Confederate territory and, indeed, Waynesville initially flew the Confederate flag. The rugged terrain and relative isolation of the Missouri frontier shielded locals from strong opinions for or against slavery, however, and secession from the Union held little immediate consequence. As the debate raged in the young country, the prevalent support in Pulaski County remained with the South; the presidential election of 1860 yielded only seven votes for Abraham Lincoln to John Breckenridge’s 281. As war became imminent, however, opinions began to shift, and this trend continued throughout the war. In Pulaski County, neighbors, families, and friends found themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield.Many Pulaski County farmers joined either the Union Army or Confederate militias or guerrilla groups, and by 1862, Waynesville had become the center of the war in Pulaski County. While a few women remained to support local fighters, most fled with their children to safer territory. Union soldiers took over the town and erected a large fort on Fort Street, overlooking the downtown square. A marker at the site is now all that remains of the fort.
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Valley view of Roubidoux River
Beautiful valley view of the Roubidoux River area from Route 66 - west
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Roubidoux River
The Roubidoux River is a spring-fed river, the Roubidoux is one of the few rivers that the Missouri Department of Conservation stocks with both brown and rainbow trout.
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Roubidoux Spring
Roubidoux Spring is a second-magnitude freshwater spring located within the city limits of Waynesville in the Missouri Ozarks. The spring discharges from the base of a rock ledge that has been capped by a large concrete wall, built to hold the road that passes over the spring.Scuba diving for certified cave divers are allowed with a check-in with the Waynesville Police Department.During the United States government's forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their traditional homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in 1838 and 1839, the native Americans camped at the springs during the winter.
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Pikes Peak
Located at the confluence of the Roubidoux and Gasconade Rivers.Pikes Peak is located along Hwy 17 North between Crocker and Waynesville, Missouri.
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Gasconade River and Bluffs
Scenic area along Hwy 28 between Dixon and Saint Robert Missouri
