Big Muddy Speaker Series presents:

Missouri & Mississippi River Water Trail information

• Click to download presentation flier (pdf)
• Missouri River Water Trail website (Missouri River in the state of Missouri - managed by Mo. DNR)
• Missouri National Recreation River Water Trail (unchannelized river in South Dakota and Nebraska - managed by Missouri River Institute)
• River-Gator interactive water trail map and guide for the Lower Mississippi River, St. Louis to Baton Rouge (created by John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company)
• Mississippi River Water Trail for the Upper Mississippi River, from Saverton to St. Louis (created by American Canoe Association)

Some Great River Paddling reading - articles and books

• Book - The Complete Paddler - A guidebook for paddling the Missouri River from the Headwaters to St. Louis, MO - by David Miller
• Book - Exploring Lewis and Clark's Missouri - by Brett Dufur
• Book - Guide to Canoing the Missouri River - by Keith Drury
• Article - "Finding Flow on the Mighty Mo" - by Brett Dufur, Missouri Conservationist
• Article - "57 feet and Rising" - Outside Magazine article of John Ruskey's canoe adventure riding the crest of the 2011 Mississippi River flood.
• Blog - Love Your Big Muddy Expedition - a chronicle of Janet Moreland's Source to Sea expedition on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
• Facebo0k - Missouri River Paddlers Facebook group - an engaged community of local and long distance Missouri River paddlers hosted by Norm Miller, who kayaked the entire Missouri River - upstream in 2004.

Missouri River Paddling guides and outfitters

• Big Muddy Adventures (St. Louis area and beyond)
• Mighty Mo Canoe Rentals (Rocheport)
• Missouri River Rafting and Canoe (St. Joseph)
• Missouri River Excursions (St. Charles & St. Louis areas)
• River Run Rentals (Kansas City area)

Canoe and Kayak Races on the Missouri River

• Race for the Dome (Providence to Jefferson City - benefit for Missouri River Relief)
• Missouri American Water MR340 (hosted by Rivermiles - Kansas City to St. Charles) - the granddaddy of them all!
• Race for the Rivers (Washington to St. Charles - benefit for Greenway Network)
• South Dakota Kayak Challenge (Yankton to Sioux City)
• Freedom Race and Missouri River Shootout (hosted by Midwest Paddle Racing - Jeff City and KC areas)

The Big Muddy Speakers Series in Kansas City

is hosted by these wonderful partners!

• Little Blue River Watershed Coalition
• Friends of Lakeside Nature Center
• Missouri River Relief
• Healthy Rivers Partnership
• Friends of Big Muddy
• Big Muddy National Fish & Wildlife Refuge
• Kansas City Digital Video

Thanks to all of our venue hosts for making this possible! Click here for a list of upcoming presentations» The Big Muddy Speaker Series is also held monthly in Rocheport and St. Charles.

• Click here for Rocheport info»
• Click here for St. Charles info»

Recordings of Presentations

Kansas City Digital Video has been recording Big Muddy Speaker Series presentations. These are available on their website at this link. Some contain synchronized powerpoint presentations. We will be posting these to the archived presentation pages on bigmuddyspeakers.org. Thanks Micheal Morgan and crew for putting this important archive online! The Big Muddy Speaker Series is partially funded by the Columbia Ecological Services Field Office (USFWS) and the Mo. Dept. of Conservation.