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Campground 3 improvements progressing at Roaring River State Park

September 17, 2024

Roaring River concessions to stay open year-round Roaring River State Park superintendent Mike Busekrus said the construction work at Campground 3 continues on schedule, with concrete work due to be completed this week. “The new sites will have lots of room to spread out,” Busekrus said on a video he recently posted to the park’s Facebook page.

Roaring River School comes back to life

September 4, 2024

Aug, 24 marked the re-opening of the old Roaring River Schoolhouse — not for student education — but for the education of the community at large. While the building will not be open full-time in the future, it will be open from 10-11 a.m.

Kyle Troutman: Labor Day adventures

September 4, 2024

Unwittingly, the Troutman family has started a new tradition. For the second Labor Day weekend in a row, we went camping.

Eric Lee Hahn fund carries on diver’s legacy

August 28, 2024

Endowment will spread diver’s love of exploration to new generations Nestled in the Ozark hills near Cassville, Roaring River State Park is home to one of the deepest underwater cave systems in the country. For decades, divers have tried to chart the vast caverns of Roaring River Spring, which, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, pumps 20 million gallons of turquoise, 57-degree water into the river every day.

Trout traditions relived on Kids’ Fishing Day

August 21, 2024

Matt Barlow readies his son Jett’s fishing pole during Kids Fishing Day at Roaring River State Park on Saturday. Barlow says he has been traveling to Roaring River, from Hoisington, Kan., since he was a child.

Jig On the Water, Aug. 21

August 21, 2024

Roaring River’s water is low and clear. There was a good little rain Saturday night that brought the river up a bit, but it remained clear, running 50 CFS as of Sunday morning.

Jig On the Water, Aug. 11

August 13, 2024

August 11, 2024 Plastic eggs did well this week. A white egg, 1 bb shot and a No.

August 13, 2024

Roaring River and Big Sugar Creek State Parks have a new superintendent. “I am pleased to announce that Mike Busekrus is the new superintendent,” said Carl Bonnell, Missouri State Parks deputy Ozarks regional director.

‘Women in Nature’ returns to Roaring River

August 6, 2024

Registration opens Thursday for the second annual “Women in Nature (WIN)” program at Roaring River State Park. As its name suggests, the WIN program, which will happen on Sept.

July 2, 2024

Ozarks Region Deputy Director Carl Bonnell says he doesn’t put too much stock in visitor counts at individual Missouri state parks, perhaps because the revenue generated within parks represents the smaller fraction (25%) of the total revenue upon which the parks system budgets. The remaining 75% of operating and developmental expenses are covered by the constitutional, 1/10-cent Parks, Soils and Water Sales Tax, first approved by Missouri voters in 1984, and reapproved multiple times since then.