Crowley's Ridge Parkway - Missouri
Crowley's Ridge Parkway - Missouri is a National Scenic Byway in Missouri. Within Missouri it covers roughly 15 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Crowley's Ridge Parkway - Missouri with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Crowley's Ridge Parkway is a National Scenic Byway beginning in the Missouri Bootheel, part of a 212-mile route continuing south into Arkansas along Crowley's Ridge. The ridge is a distinctive geological formation rising 250 to 550 feet above the surrounding Mississippi alluvial plain. Missouri's portion, designated in 2000, follows State Route 25 in Dunklin County from the Stoddard County line south to Kennett, with a spur from Business Highway 25 and County Highway 7 west on Highway WW to Campbell. The Bootheel landscape here mixes sharecropping history, cotton fields, sand ridges, swamps, peach orchards, and yucca plants, evoking an Old South character distinct from the rest of Missouri. Wildflowers color the ridge and hills through spring, summer, and fall, and the corridor holds numerous National Register of Historic Places sites along with Civil War battlefields and archaeological points of interest. It's Missouri's only scenic byway that continues as a designated route into another state.
- Missouri Bootheel section of a 212-mile byway
- Crowley's Ridge geological formation
- designated 2000, Dunklin & Stoddard counties
- cotton, sand ridge & peach-orchard Bootheel landscape
- Civil War battlefields & historic sites
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What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.