Northern Missouri
McClure Conservation Area is a Weldon Fork place, not a boat-ramp shortcut
McClure Conservation Area gives Mercer County public access to a Weldon Fork landscape, but MDC says river access is limited and there is no boat ramp.
McClure Conservation Area is a small but place-specific Mercer County note. MDC’s management plan identifies it as a Mercer County conservation area and says its purpose is to provide a river-oriented, multiple-use area on an unchannelized portion of the Weldon Fork of the Grand River.
The same plan says the area includes about one mile of the Weldon Fork, which runs along part of the north boundary and through the middle of the conservation area. But it also warns that access to the Weldon Fork is very limited because there is no boat ramp and erosion restricts access from the river to the area.
That makes McClure useful, but not in a generic “river access” way. Check the MDC plan and map before assuming it works for boating, fishing access, or a quick river stop.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to Mercer County. See every local note for the county on its page.