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.
Things to Do in Eminence, Missouri
Eminence sits where the Jacks Fork meets the Current River, and the country around it is springs, shut-ins, and old mill creeks. The deepest spring in Missouri rises a short drive south, a 40-foot waterfall pours into a swimming hole east of town, and Missouri's elk herd ranges the hills beyond. Places are grouped by distance from downtown, so you can plan around how far you feel like going.
Within 5 miles of Eminence
Within 15 miles of Eminence
Klepzig Mill
Walter Klepzig's little turbine mill still stands in the shut-in canyon of Rocky Creek, unsigned and easy to pass by, at the end of a dirt road or a hike from Rocky Falls.
Rocky Falls
A 40-foot cascade pours over pink and purple volcanic rock into a swimmable pool on Rocky Creek, a short walk from its parking lot and picnic area.
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.
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.
Peck Ranch Conservation Area
Missouri's elk country: a roughly 23,000-acre conservation area near Winona with a self-guided elk viewing driving tour that starts at the area office, a viewing deck over a beaver pond, primitive camping, Ozark Trail miles, and four natural areas, at the end of about seven miles of gravel road.
Cardareva Bluff Natural Area
A 95-acre natural area where a dolomite bluff rises about 500 feet above the Current River, split between the Park Service and the Conservation Department, met best from a float down from Powder Mill or a map-and-compass walk along the bluff top.
Log Yard Campground
A Park Service backcountry campground and year-round boat ramp at River Mile 37 on the Current River: six reservable sites, a vault toilet, and some of the darkest night skies in the park.