Thayer, MO Road Trips
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Longest Drive
230 mi
St. Louis, MO
Quickest Drive
4h 36m
St. Louis, MO
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Thayer, MO by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
2,288
Median Income
$36,477
Median Home Value
$69,300
Median Age
41.9
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Traveler Guide to Thayer, MO
Thayer is in the Ozarks region of southwest Missouri.
Grand Gulf State Park. Is a collapsed cave system exposing a great example of the karst systems underlying the Ozark region. Walk through a natural bridge and into the mouth of a cave that serves as the gulf's drain system toward an underground river that arises at Mammoth Spring in nearby Arkansas. Warm Fork of the Spring River is a lesser known Ozark stream that provides opportunities for fishing, swimming, and floating w/o the crowds downstream when it joins the Mammoth Spring spring branch in Arkansas and forms the popular Spring River.
Float Spring River in neighboring Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
The Country Cottage, 720 Missouri 19, ☏ +1 417 264-3443. Locally owned old-fashioned food.
The Beverage Shoppe, US Hwy 63, ☏ +1 417 264-3118. Locally owned package store providing all your float trip and hunting camp needs.
Mammoth Spring Lodge Motel, U.S. 63 South, ☏ +1 417 264-3888. Accommodations near Mammoth Spring, Arkansas Riverview Motel, 423 U.S. 63, ☏ +1 870 625-3218. Accommodations overlooking Spring River in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.
U.S. Hwy 63 is the primary corridor into the town. Thayer is the southernmost point of Scenic Highway 19 which travels through national forests and crosses several scenic rivers. Thayer has a small airport.
Travel tips adapted from Thayer (Missouri) on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.
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