Thayer is in the Ozarks region of southwest Missouri.

Get in

U.S. Hwy 63 is the primary corridor into the town. Thayer is the southernmost point of Scenic Highway 19 which travels through national forests and crosses several scenic rivers.

Thayer has a small airport.

See

• Grand Gulf State Park. Is a collapsed cave system exposing a great example of the karst systems underlying the Ozark region. Walk through a natural bridge and into the mouth of a cave that serves as the gulf's drain system toward an underground river that arises at Mammoth Spring in nearby Arkansas. 

• Warm Fork of the Spring River is a lesser known Ozark stream that provides opportunities for fishing, swimming, and floating w/o the crowds downstream when it joins the Mammoth Spring spring branch in Arkansas and forms the popular Spring River.

Do

• Float Spring River in neighboring Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Buy

• Fin and Fur offers a large assortment of hunting, fishing, camping supplies, and apparel.
• Shop flea markets.

Eat

• The Country Cottage, 720 Missouri 19, ☏ +1 417 264-3443. Locally owned old-fashioned food. 

Drink

• The Beverage Shoppe, US Hwy 63, ☏ +1 417 264-3118. Locally owned package store providing all your float trip and hunting camp needs. 

Sleep

• Mammoth Spring Lodge Motel, U.S. 63 South, ☏ +1 417 264-3888. Accommodations near Mammoth Spring, Arkansas 
• Riverview Motel, 423 U.S. 63, ☏ +1 870 625-3218. Accommodations overlooking Spring River in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. 

Go next

Routes through Thayer

Jefferson City ← West Plains ←	N  S	→ Mammoth Spring → Jonesboro
Cuba ← Alton ←	N  S	→ END