Missouri

Some places change with every passing decade, swapping out their look to chase whatever feels new. Then there…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 20

Somewhere along a quiet stretch of Missouri highway sits a little breakfast counter where the buns are shaped…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 20

Missouri takes its meat seriously, and the proof shows up on the cutting board at butcher shops scattered…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 19

Missouri has a quiet talent for homemade pie, and some of the best slices are hiding in small…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 19

Missouri is full of small towns where the best plan is no plan at all. These are the…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 19

Some folks plan whole road trips around a single sandwich. In Kansas City, there is a brick building…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 18

A short drive from a busy college town, a chunk of central Missouri hides something most people never…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 18

There is a corner of southwest Missouri where the water sits so still it looks like polished glass,…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 18

Twelve miles down a winding highway from a well-known Missouri river town sits a butcher shop that has…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 18

Missouri once had dozens of covered bridges, but only a handful still stand today. Four of them are…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 17

Deep in the heart of Missouri, there is a place where ancient granite squeezes a river into a…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 17

Missouri takes its fried chicken seriously, and there is a good reason people keep coming back for that…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 17

Somewhere in the Missouri Ozarks, there is a pool of water so clear and richly colored that it…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 17

Missouri has a soft spot for old-fashioned drive-ins, and a few of them still do things the way…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 16

Some crispy little pasta pockets have earned near-legendary status in St. Louis, and folks happily log serious highway…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 16

Missouri has a wine-country history that goes back well over a century, and the small towns scattered along…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 16

Some places refuse to change, and they turn out better for it. Tucked into an old corner of…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 15

Some places hang onto a decade so tightly that walking through the door feels like turning back the…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 15

A wealthy businessman once dreamed of building a European-style stone castle high on a bluff in the Ozarks.…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 15

Somewhere in the Missouri Ozarks, a stream of clear water pushes up from the ground in huge volumes,…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 15

Some of the best food in Missouri’s lake country hides behind a building you might mistake for an…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 14

Somewhere along the old highway in central Missouri sits a little spot where breakfast never clocks out and…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 14

Somewhere along a stretch of Missouri highway sits a little spot where the buns are shaped by hand,…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 14

Trading a mower for a morning stroll sounds like a fantasy for anyone who has spent decades pulling…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 13

Missouri has been making a name for itself in the wine world for well over a century, and…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 13

Some places earn loyalty one plate at a time, and a little log cabin tucked near a Missouri…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 13

Some restaurants chase trends. Others simply stick to what works, decade after decade, and let the food do…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 13

Some of the best breakfasts in Missouri hide in plain sight, tucked along a stretch of highway most…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 12

Tucked above a storefront in a small Missouri suburb sits a bowling alley that never let go of…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 12

Some of the best meals hide in the least likely spots, sitting quietly beside railroad tracks in a…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 12

Some places tucked away off the main road are worth hunting down, and this Missouri diner proves it…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 11

Missouri has plenty of quiet corners where life moves at a gentler speed and neighbors still wave from…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 11

Fried catfish is one of those meals that pulls people off the highway and into small-town cafes across…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 11

There’s a spot in the Ozarks where the coffee never seems to run low and the person filling…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 11

Living well on a tight budget sounds tricky, but some small Missouri towns make it surprisingly doable. West…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 10

Deep in the ancient hills of southeast Missouri, a river gets squeezed between walls of billion-year-old volcanic rock,…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 10

Missouri has a way of hiding its best food in places you might drive right past. Small-town diners…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 10

Some drives feel like a chore, and others turn into the best decision of the weekend. Tucked into…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 10

Tucked inside a quiet county park west of St. Louis sits a cluster of buildings that once stood…

By Grant Ozark · Aug 9