Deer Run Conservation Area
Fishing
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The Arcadia Valley Region and Black River Recreation
Area Near St. Louis in the
Missouri Ozarks
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Deer
Run Conservation Area
Historically significant in our region, Deer Run offers many
recreational opportunities for public use. Hunting, fishing,
hiking, primitive camping, sightseeing and photography may
be enjoyed during all seasons of the year. This 7,475 -acre
tract of land lies in the middle of the vast Ozark forest
and is typical of the heavily timbered Ozark hills. It supports
healthy stands of pine and oak. About 0.6 miles north
on the logging road rests the remains an important piece of
Missouri's Civil War history. This fortification,
a type of earthen fort or Reden, is also known as Fort
Barnesville. For more on Fort Barnesville,
on the National Register of Historic Places, please
see our Missouri
Civil War page. In addition the first steel fire tower
in Missouri was erected on the site in 1926. One of the first
steps in fire prevention in Missouri, the fire tower is still
used today.
Covering three acres, Buford
Pond (a manmade pond thought to have been built by the Missouri
Lumber and Mining Company and named for Senator Wilbur Buford
from Ellington) is stocked with large mouth bass and channel
catfish. The pond has several shaded
picnic tables surrounding it and is the perfect serenely beautiful
location to have lunch or just relax.
Deer Run also has a firearms shooting
range and provides shooters with 25-, 50- and 100-yard shooting
stations and a shotgun range. Restroom facilities are
also located here. The Civilian Conservation Corps,
founded in 1933 as one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New
Deal programs, had a camp at Deer Run. The rock house
that still stands on the property was an administrative center
for the camp. Go 3 miles west of Ellington on Highway 106.
There are 3 entrances: one is located 3 miles west of Ellington
on Hwy 106. Another is located on South Road in Ellington.
The other is located on Reynolds County Road 626.
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For Deer Run Conservation Area lodging, cabins,
cottages, motels, hotels, bed and breakfast inns, lodges
and campgrounds near hunting and fishing opportunities
in the Black River Recreation Area and Arcadia Valley
Region, please click
here.
Missouri Hunting
& Fishing Guides:
The
opportunities are unlimited for that trophy hunt or
that memorable fishing trip you've always wanted when
you engage a local guide. Robbie Chadbourne
was born and bred in this region and has been an active
sportsman since he could bait a hook or hold up a firearm.
Robbie also arranges wild hog hunts. To arrange your next guided hunting or fishing expedition
call Robbie 573-854-2514.
For the best in sporting goods, guns, hunting,
fishing and camping equipment stores in our region,
please click
here.
To learn much more about the Missouri Vacation Opportunities
in the Arcadia Valley Region and Black River Recreation
Area including dining, shopping, entertainment, historic
towns and landmarks, civil war history, float trips
and other abundant recreational activites available
in our region, please visit www.missouri-vacations.com
Find out why this is the outdoor recreation capital
of Missouri!
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(Please
note: There are numerous designated hunting and fishing
areas to be found on public lands and in designated conservation
areas in our region. Please respect private property. With connections
through friends or acquaintances, willing landowners often give
permission to hunt or fish on private property.)
For
an atlas of public lands the Missouri Department of Conservation
owns, leases or manages for public use in Reynolds County or
Iron County click here.
Search by County. For other Federal lands in our region
please click here.
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