The Little Niangua River is fed by numerous large springs and is considered, along with its larger sister stream, to be one of the best fishing rivers in the state. When water is low, a canoe or kayak can be paddled across the longer and deeper pools, but may have to be walked over riffies.

Difficulty: I and frequently II.
Gradients: general- 4.8; above Hwy. 54 to Hwy. P area – 5.5; to Hwy. J – 4.3.
Counties: Hickory, Camden.

Little Niangua River – Mile-By-Mile Description

0.0 Low-water bridge on County Road 200. Access during high water only.
2.6 Hwy. 54 Bridge.
5.2 River divides. Right channel usually best but left channel meets road at small settlement of Almon. No access.
8.2 Low-water bridge on County Road 96. Mule Shoe Conservarion Area on right.
11.8 County Road 66 Bridge access.
12.8 Starks Creek on left.
18.5 Macks Creek on right.
19.2 Griswald Ford at mouth of Coffee Hollow Creek. Multiple spring on north side of ford.
19.9 Green’s Ford.
21.8 Howard’s Ford. Rocky riffie.
23.7 Burnt Mill Spring, which once operated a mill that was burned during the Civil War.
25.5 Bannister Ford. Bridge crossing.
27.1 Kolbs Hollow Creek on left.
28.2 Spring Branch on righr. Flow is 3 million gallons per day.
31.3 Fiery Fork Creek on left and Fiery Fork Conservation Area and canoe/kayak access on left. On County Road 7-17.
34.3 Hwy. J Bridge access. Water below this point is part of Lake of the Ozarks .