Ninnescah River

[grizwilson]

For clarification it was a deputy sheriff. Deputy was polite but told him you can only float streams determined to be navigable and then listed some examples of both. He was not issued a citation but was made to immediately exit the water. I am quite confident the prosecuting attorney would not have pursued the issue but who wants to go through that ordeal.

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/WR51.pdf

page 142, might be a good thing to print out and keep in the dry box, to help educate folks....any stream with sufficient flow to float a boat...pretty plain.

[Al Agnew]

As we've also hashed out before, that NOR information linked by Griz may technically be true, BUT IF YOU DEPEND UPON IT IN ALMOST ANY STATE, YOU'RE IN FOR A LOT OF GRIEF! I still think that they are doing paddlers a huge disservice by posting it constantly as if that's all you need to know. The fact is that neither Missouri or Arkansas or any other state that I'm familiar with pays any attention to it, and when you get arrested for trespass by going by it, the only way you'll ever possibly prevail in a court of law is if you somehow take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court--and win. Unless and until that happens, IT IS ENTIRELY USELESS INFORMATION.

[grizwilson]

Al is correct, I took the nro link down. Having floated all accross the country for the past 50 years I have learned confrontation on the river will ruin a trip regardless if you are right or legal. I do carry the legal page from MO in my dry box to share with anyone who will reason but disengage from confrontation.