Big Spring
One of the largest springs in the United States, pouring an average of 289 million gallons of clear blue water a day into the Current River, four miles south of Van Buren.
Springs to Visit in the Ozarks
The Ozarks runs on springs: some of the largest on Earth boil up here, hundreds of millions of gallons a day of cold, blue water. Every spring in the guide, with access, flow, and visiting details checked against official sources.
Blue Spring
The deepest spring in Missouri rises cobalt blue under a bluff on the Current River, filling a look-but-don't-touch pool inside a state natural area.
Cave Spring, Lower Current
A spring rising in a cave mouth up a short branch off the Current River between the Hickory and Cataract landings, with a Park Service day use area and river trail. The spring water is strictly off limits, but the cave is one of the few in the park open to enter on foot, as far as the interior shade line.
Alley Spring and Mill
Missouri's seventh largest spring pours about 81 million gallons a day past a bright red 1894 roller mill, in the most photographed corner of the Jacks Fork country.
Round Spring
A nearly perfect circle of deep blue water, 55 feet deep, slips under a natural bridge to the Current River, with a campground and picnic shelters beside it. Its lantern-lit cave is closed for the 2026 season while its flood-damaged bridge is repaired.
Greer Spring
Missouri's second largest spring bursts from a cave mouth and a boiling stream bed at the bottom of a wooded ravine, reached by a 0.9-mile trail off Highway 19, then runs 1.25 miles to double the Eleven Point River.
Falling Spring Mill
A spring pours from a cave opening in a bluff and drops about 15 feet into a millpond beside a small 1927-1929 mill and an 1851 log homestead cabin, in a rustic Forest Service picnic ground south of Winona.
Turner Mill and Spring
A 25-foot steel mill wheel stands in the branch of Turner Spring on the north bank of the Eleven Point River, with a day-use picnic area and launch on the north side and a rustic campground and concrete launch facing it across the water.