Quinta Scott's Two Tank Tours--St. Louis

All Tours Come with Maps and Photographs for the Armchair Tourist

For questions call: 314-338-4298 or email qs@quintascott.com

An Ecological Tour of Bluff Road and the American Bottom:

Bikers, both those who peddle and those who ride motorcycles and Sunday drivers tour Bluff Road, which runs along the base of the bluffs that line the American Bottom, the vast agricultural floodplain that extends from the mouth of the Missouri River to the mouth of the Kaskaskia River on the Illinois side of the Mississippi.

This tour includes a side trip to a very small National Wildlife Refuge, a hike on a Clifftop prairie, a second hike to a side channel of the Mississippi and to the very edge of the river if you choose. Maps are included where they are needed.

Download the tour for $7.

The Plymouth Rock of the Mississippi Valley:

French priests from Canada settled the village of Cahokia in 1699; Jesuit priests and a group of Kaskaskia Indians the village of Kaskaskia in 1703. The settlers followed old Indian trails between the two villages. Americans followed the French at the end of the American Revolution and settled along the Kaskaskia Trail. When the Germans followed the Americans in the 1830s, they settled in the villages that grew up along the trail.

This tour takes you to remnants of the French settlements, past the remnants of the American settlements, and to the thriving German communities of Monroe County, Illinois.

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The Riverlands:

Lewis and Clark, Route 66, Lock and Dam 26, and the Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri: this tour is about the edge of the Mississippi. It includes a hike across the bridge that carried Route 66 across the Mississippi, which allows walking and biking, but no cars. Two museums, one devoted to the Lewis and Clark expedition and the second to the Lock and Dams that govern the navigation channel on the Upper Mississippi. Two hikes, both fairly short, carry you to the confluence, one on the north side and the other on the south side. A third hike takes you across a side channel of the Mississippi and around an island. A fourth takes you to a managed wetland, devoted to wildlife. Finally, if you choose to, you can go to Grafton, Illinois and the Confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi.