Golden hour hikes, farmers' markets, and EVENTS

One of the things we strive to achieve at Backroad Weekly (apart from absurdity) is to sow local pride in the Southeast Missouri area. As you all may well know, when you're from an area (or you live there long enough), it's easy to see it as normal and even "boring". We're here to give you a little shake...a lil' smack on the cheek and point out that if you had just flown here from the dry French Riviera, the cypress-tupelo swamp at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, with its mud snakes and bald...