Current River State Park
Current River State Park is a park in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 245 m. Red Hill stands 410 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Echo Bluff State Park, a park 1.3 miles away. Great River Road passes 89 miles off. 152 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Missouri State Parks
How to reach it
- 88.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
152 named places within 25 miles
- Round Spring: 2.9 mi
- Watson Spring: 3.3 mi
- White Oak Spring: 3.4 mi
- Fire Hydrant Spring: 3.4 mi
- Pulltite Spring: 3.5 mi
- Bald Knob: 7.0 mi
- Tip Top Mountain: 8.6 mi
- Jerktail Mountain: 9.8 mi
- Cedar Point: 12.1 mi
- Coot Mountain: 14.2 mi
- Echo Bluff State Park: 1.3 mi
- Virgin Pine Forest: 5.1 mi
- Sunklands-Burr Oak State Wildlife Area: 6.6 mi
- Skunk Pond State Wildlife Management Area: 8.2 mi
- Loggers Lake Recreation Area: 10.4 mi
- Echo Bluff: 1.3 mi
- Panther Bluff: 1.5 mi
- Upper Dugan Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Lower Dugan Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Bee Bluff: 8.8 mi
- Sinkin: 6.2 mi
- Rector: 7.4 mi
- Halcyon: 11.0 mi
- Cedargrove: 11.9 mi
- Turtle: 14.0 mi
- Welch Spring Hospital: 9.4 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 17.7 mi
- SHS Tiger Tank: 23.3 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 23.4 mi
- SHS Football: 23.5 mi
- Cedar Grove Conservation Area: 11.6 mi
- Flat Rock State Wildlife Area: 12.1 mi
- Joshua T. Chilton Memorial Access: 12.4 mi
- Powder Mill Cave Natural Area: 16.7 mi
- Midvale Conservation Area: 18.8 mi
- Welch Spring: 9.4 mi
- Cross Country Trail Rides: 12.3 mi
- The Deer Statue: 22.6 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 22.9 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 22.9 mi
- Pulltite: 2.8 mi
- Beach 3: 12.4 mi
- Beach 2: 12.5 mi
- Beach 3: 12.6 mi
- Sinking Creek Day Use Area: 1.6 mi
- Round Spring: 3.0 mi
- Round Spring Natural Bridge: 2.9 mi
- Turner Natural Bridge: 12.7 mi
- Dent county museum: 23.1 mi
- Bonebrake Center of Nature and History: 23.2 mi
- Horseshoe Horse: 12.4 mi
- Rocky Falls: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Current River State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill | NE 40° | 410 m | 16.1 mi |
| Stegall Mountain | SE 143° | 409 m | 21.0 mi |
| Thorny Mountain | SE 139° | 405 m | 20.8 mi |
| Mule Mountain | SSE 146° | 403 m | 20.4 mi |
| Tower Hill | NNE 13° | 400 m | 15.8 mi |
| Wildcat Mountain | SE 131° | 385 m | 14.2 mi |
| Coot Mountain | SE 136° | 379 m | 14.2 mi |
| Tip Top Mountain | SE 130° | 377 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:46 | 19:51 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:11 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Round Spring 2SW, 4 mi away.
- Pipevine Swallowtail16 obs
- viper's-bugloss12 obs
- Golden Crayfish11 obs
- prairie dock10 obs
- Common Watersnake9 obs
- Bleeding Shiner9 obs
- Spicebush Swallowtail8 obs
- wild carrot8 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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