Wading the Big River

[tinner]

Can anyone tell me how accessible the river is to wading between Browns Ford and the confluence with the Meramec.

[Al Agnew]

It's wadeable in spots, but has lots of water between that isn't easily wadeable. While Big River is never an exceptionally deep stream, it has enough volume and enough narrow, high banked sections in the lower river to make wading problematical. I haven't been below Browns in several years, but I seem to remember that it's fairly wadeable just below Browns for a ways.