Why this ride
Shaded two-lane riding with rolling corners and little urban exposure. It also links naturally to Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ozark Hellbender 19 and 106
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 88 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 17
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Check seasonal gates, park access and state 511 notices before publication. Specific flag: wildlife.
Seasonal context
Mar-Nov
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Salem
Salem is the gateway town on the northern edge of the Ozarks' best riding country, a county seat of about five thousand people where the farmland of the plateau starts to break into the steep, forested hills that drain south toward the Current River. It is the last place with a real choice of gas stations, groceries and restaurants before Route 19 heads into a long, empty stretch toward Eminence, so this is where you fill the tank, eat properly and check the weather.
Read the complete Salem write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Salem sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Eminence.
2. Eminence
Eminence has fewer than six hundred residents and, on a summer weekend, several thousand visitors, most of them carrying canoes. The tiny town sits on the Jacks Fork River in the heart of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, the first national park area in the United States created to protect a river system, established in 1964 to keep the Current and Jacks Fork rivers free of dams. The water here is famously clear, cold and blue-green over gravel bars, fed by enormous springs pouring out of the limestone.
Read the complete Eminence write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Eminence comes up 37 km in. Next is Winona.
3. Winona
Winona sits where Route 19 meets US Highway 60, a small Shannon County town of about thirteen hundred people strung along the main road among the hills of the Mark Twain National Forest. It is not a destination in its own right, and it does not pretend to be. What it offers is a crossroads, a gas station or two, a few places to eat and a quick pause between the rivers of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways to the north and the timber country to the south.
Read the complete Winona write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
88 km in you reach Winona.