Bennett Spring State Park
Subnational Park · Lebanon, Missouri
A spring discharging around a hundred million gallons a day into the Niangua River, and the busiest trout park in Missouri - the state hatchery stocks the stream daily and, on opening day on 1 March, several thousand anglers stand shoulder to shoulder along it waiting for the siren. It is a genuinely peculiar spectacle and it is the reason the park exists in its current form. Outside the fishing it is a large, well-equipped Ozark park with a lodge, cabins and a good nature centre.
26250 Highway 64A, Lebanon, Missouri, 65536, United States
FREE to enter and open year round. TROUT FISHING RUNS ON A SEASON: the main catch-and-keep season is 1 March to 31 October, with fishing opening and closing by siren each day, and a catch-and-release winter season on limited days. A daily trout tag is required on top of a Missouri fishing licence. The store, lodge and cabins are seasonal.
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