Located along the Mississippi River, at the community of Ashburn, the 6,705-acre Ted Shanks Conservation Area offers unique opportunities for wildlife viewing and waterfowl hunting. The area contains a mix of bottomland hardwood timber, open marsh, mixed shrub/scrub/emergent wetlands, row crops, oxbow lakes and sloughs, old fields and upland woods. About 4,000 acres of the area are seasonally flooded to provide feeding, roosting and shelter habitat for migratory birds. Facilities/features include: a lake boat ramp, stream boat ramp, waterfowl blinds, and two natural areas. There are more than 500 acres of fishable water, inluding Horseshoe Lake, Salt River and the Mississippi River.
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 U.S. 61 goes from just west of New Orleans, La., to Thunder Bay, Ontario. With no apologies to the Bob Dylan tune, the fastest route from Wentzville to extreme northeast Missouri is this U.S. 61.
We don’t use U.S. 61 as a “scenic byway” but instead as a reference highway line, from which you can come and go with the following entries.
If your compass or interest in monitoring it flags, there is Missouri 79. You can pick up this road around mile marker 220 on I-70 and ride it ...
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