Left takes you to Klepzig Mill three miles away. The Rocky Falls trail follows Rocky Creek for a half mile before one comes to the intersection of the Ozark Trail. I made it across safely, picked up my phone and carried on. Left to Klepzig Mill and Right to Peck Ranch So for the first time ever, I didn’t feel very comfortable crossing with my phone, so I gave it a toss to the other side. And the first one I stepped on was pretty wobbly. But the water was high enough that I didn’t have too many rocks to choose from. Believe it or not I’m pretty sure-footed on the rocks at creek crossings. Immediately, once I got on the trail, I had to cross Rocky Creek. For this particular trail, you are looking for the trailhead to the left if you are facing the falls. There’s more than one trailhead at the Rocky Falls parking lot. One thing, I was extremely glad that I took a picture of the trail map with “look fors” while hiking.

I quickly found the trailhead and went on my way. Since I was on a bit of a time crunch, I didn’t spend too much time exploring the falls at first. I read that it is 40 feet of cascading water! Last weekend I was at Johnson Shut-Ins, but the sheer size of this waterfall/shut-in was so much higher than those at JSI. To my shock, just below the parking lot was one of the most gorgeous rock and water formations I’ve seen in Missouri in recent memory. I arrived at Rocky Falls not really knowing what to expect. They didn’t see any horses but plenty of signs of them. Her and Aaron had completed it in the fall. I’d always heard about the floating and hiking in the area, but I was most intrigued about the prospect of seeing the “Wild Horses of Shannon County” while hiking! So I left early to get a hike in before the games.Ĭaroline suggested the Rocky Falls to Klepzig Mill section of the Ozark Trail as a good possibility to see the horses. Saturday, my work as Athletic Director sent me to Eminence, Missouri to supervise our school’s baseball team in a tournament. We are just both too busy with different schedules! So we’ve decided anytime we’ve both completed a section of the Ozark Trail, together or separate, we’d consider it complete! However, that may have not been the most realistic idea.

Up to that point we’d both completed other sections separately. In our first post about our first completed section of the Ozark Trail that Caroline and I finished together, ( Ketcherside Mountain to Taum Sauk ), we originally thought that we would try to complete all the sections as a duo.

Rocky falls shut in