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The Manitou Bluffs
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Renner Anderson
November 26, 2024
Cycling
Just a few miles east of Rocheport, Missouri, on the Katy Trail, you will find soaring white cliffs consisting of limestone formed at the bottom of a shallow sea about 460 million years ago. Their white color is due to their high quartz content. The cliffs were formed by the erosive power of the Missouri River.
oliviakellis
May 18, 2025
Hiking
Between Rocheport and Huntsdale, the Katy Trail skirts the base of the majestic Manitou Bluffs—towering limestone cliffs shaped by the Missouri River's erosive power. These bluffs hold deep cultural significance, adorned with ancient Native American pictographs and burial mounds atop their heights. Early explorers, including Lewis and Clark, documented these sites in the early 1800s.
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