The Ozark National Scenic Riverways, established in 1964, is the nation’s first national park area created for the protection of a river system. The Jacks Fork and Current Rivers are two of the country’s best floating rivers. These rivers are clear, cold, and spring-fed, providing delightful waters for fishing, boating, swimming, tubing, hiking, bird watching, or canoeing. Along with the two well known rivers, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways park features hundred of historic sites, trails, caves, and freshwater springs. The landscape of the park is mostly rural is the occasional open fields and oak-pine forests.

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