Baptist Camp to Akers Ferry - Welch Spring - Floating the Current River - 2 day float Missouri

This is a quick edit of my most recent float. Baptist Camp to Akers Ferry. My watch clocked it at around 14 miles. Baptist Camp is mile marker 0.0. We took out at Akers Ferry, mile marker 15.7.

16:00 Welch Spring

The final 2 miles is by far the best. You get to visit Welch Spring. The spring flows from the base of a wooded dolomite hill near the historic Welch Hospital, and then flows to the river over a rock impoundment. Thomas Welch homesteaded Welch Spring, in 1855, and a gristmill was run on the spring-branch until nearly 50 years after the Civil War.


This upper portion of the Current is very secluded. I highly recommend this if you are looking to get some solitude in nature.

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