The Niangua River is a 125-mile-long Osage River tributary ... Head over to Ava in Douglas County to take on Beaver Creek. This is a great floating destination for paddlers who want to tour ...

It’s preposterous, but I would like to think our float trip with Gus on the Niangua to some tiny degree equipped him to lead a 1991 expedition, floating Russia’s Lena river 2,734 miles from ...