page_title: Meramec River
hierarchical_section_title: Meramec River
caption_attribution_description: English: The Meramec River running past Onondaga Cave State Park in Missouri.
context_page_description: The Meramec River, sometimes spelled Maramec River is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles while wandering 218 miles from headwaters near Steelville to where it empties into the Mississippi River near St. Louis at Arnold and Oakville. The Meramec watershed covers
  six Missouri Ozark Highland counties—Dent, Phelps, Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, and St. Louis—and portions of eight others—Maries, Gasconade, Iron, Washington, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, and Texas. Between its source and its mouth, it falls 1,025 feet. Year-round navigability begins above Maramec Spring, just south of St. James. The Meramec's size increases at the confluence of the Dry Fork, and its navigability continues until the river enters the Mississippi at Arnold, Missouri.
context_section_description: The Meramec River (/ˈmɛrɪmæk/), sometimes spelled Maramec River is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km²) while wandering 218 miles (351 km) from headwaters near Steelville to where it empties into the Mississippi River near St. Louis at Arnold and Oakville. The Meramec watershed covers
  six Missouri Ozark Highland counties—Dent, Phelps, Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, and St. Louis—and portions of eight others—Maries, Gasconade, Iron, Washington, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, and Texas. Between its source and its mouth, it falls 1,025 feet (312 m). Year-round navigability begins above Maramec Spring, just south of St. James. The Meramec's size increases at the confluence of the Dry Fork, and its navigability continues until the river enters the Mississippi at Arnold, Missouri.
caption: At Onondaga Cave State Park
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