Great River Road - Missouri
Great River Road - Missouri is a State Scenic Byway in Missouri. Within Missouri it covers roughly 410 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Great River Road - Missouri with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Missouri leg of the Great River Road runs along the Mississippi past river bluffs and historic towns, most famously Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the inspiration for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The route takes in caves, riverside parks, and overlooks of the wide, barge-laden river. Twain's white-fenced hometown is the centerpiece.
- Mark Twain's Hannibal
- Mississippi River bluffs
- Tom Sawyer country
- river caves
- the Great River Road
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.