NOTE: This is a special guest post from FloatMissouri Facebook fan Cari. If you’d like to submit an article like hers, click here. I spent so much time outdoors as a child; camping, floating, hiking, swimming, and more! I knew that when I had children, I wanted them to have the same fun enriching experiences that I…
Don’t Wait Until You Are Camping to Get a Backpack That Works Best for You The best advice you can get for choosing a camping backpack is to choose one ahead of starting out in the great outdoors for your trip. It needs to be the right size, fit and form in order to work…
Floating along the river provides one of the best opportunities to view Missouri’s wildlife, because it’s easy to remain silent while covering a large area of land. Observing wild animals is usually guaranteed while out on the river, for any length of time, but if you’re lucky, you may just notice a rare endangered species. …
My all time favorite summer activity is camping with the family. The smell of the outdoors along with the sound of bugs chirping, squeaking, and buzzing, is soothing for anyone who loves camping under the stars. One of the most enjoyable parts of camping is the food; there is nothing that compares. Here’s my favorite…
When I was younger, my family used to go on camping trips quite often. I remember when we camped close to home, in Missouri, and my dad disappeared into the woods for a while, returning with a bag full of mushrooms. They looked curiously odd compared to all the mushrooms I had ever seen. He…
Though the most important thing you need – bar none – while camping is water, fire also ranks very high on your list of priorities. Unprepared campers who only bring a lighter or a box of regular matches realize what a big mistake they made when the fail to make a fire once water ruins…
Most people have a general understanding that the vast majority of snakes they meet in Missouri are harmless, but there are a rare few that are extremely dangerous – even deadly. To prepare yourself for the great outdoors, it is in your best interest to understand what these snakes look like as well as how…
Summer – the time when kids are out of school, and of course boredom seems to be unavoidable. For many, the solution seems to lie in structured activities and being outdoors. These two items are almost always combined in what many refer to as a summer camp. Unfortunately, with the high prices, it seems that…
There are easy, fun, and different ways to do things while you’re camping. From keeping the fire going to delicious and new ways to eat your favorite camping food, here are 7 ideas that are so good you’ll want to try them out next time you go camping!
Missouri used to have plenty of elk, but they were over hunted and disappeared from our state by 1865. Now, the MO Department of Conservation is in the midst of a project, begun in 2011, to restore the elk population in Missouri once again – at least in the southeastern part of the state.