Great River Road

Yeah! OK! Still soaking feet in warm salt water.

Geez, I thought you RAN it, as in running with your feet!

A couple of years ago we ran it from Prairie du Chien to Natchez when returning to Florida from the U.P.

Sinage is not always the best . We had to double back and find the GRR a couple of times.

Lots of neat stuff to see from Indian Mounds to Hanibal to the Gateway Arch to the plantations. We had my wife's 93 year old mother along and she "never dreamed there were such things."

Be sure to stop at Tom Sawyer CG in West Memphis and kick back for a couple of days and watch the river traffic go by. (BBQ at Neely's is another don't miss)

I didn't know there was a "Great River Road." I grew up with "River Road" which was just the road along the Mississippi in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I've always wanted to float the entire River and did drive across from Minnesota to Wisconsin last year and camped across from river on WI side.

I have a new goal!

Had a great time last year. Get the map and watch your signage as it use county roads also.

A couple of maps I've seen show New Orleans, but one shows Hwy 23 south from NO to Fort Jackson, and south of there, the town of Venice, possibly the endpoint.

Have done most of it, walked across the Mississippi, and started back down the other side. Haven't found the first sign on the Louisiana end, anyone know where it is?? Notice that all the COE campgrounds have a train track on one side, and the river on the other? One park had paint marks on the interior roads to indicate the high water marks.

The folks at the Ditching Suburbia blog are doing that right now. You should check it out. They've featured some great stops and talked about how the route works.

Kinda looks like you need to do full Minnesota to Louisiana roundtrip - there are designated Great River Road(s) on both the east and west sides of the river except for a little bit of the most northern section in Minnesota.