One of the friendliest, most picturesque small towns in the Ozarks, Mountain Grove is a community whose citizens work hard, play hard and happily lend a helping hand to neighbors and area visitors alike. On a
typical sunny afternoon in Mountain Grove, you can find children playing while families picnic in the Cedar Center Children’s Park. You might also notice people gathering to sit and visit in the park surrounding the historic bandstand on the town square. Or you can take in a baseball, softball, tennis or sand volleyball game at one of the many recreational areas available in Mountain Grove.
The nearby North Fork, Bryant, Eleven Point, Current, Gasconade and Jack Fork Rivers offer the choice of floating lazily along or meeting the challenge of faster water. These same rivers also provide unique access to some of the most breathtaking scenery to be found in the Ozarks. A particularly scenic area is the Ozarks national Scenic Riverway, a 134 -mile section along the current and Jack's Forks Rivers. Located along the Scenic Riverway are Alley Springs Mill, Round Spring Cave and Jam-Up Cave.
If fishing is your passion, many area streams are spring fed providing the opportunity for some truly thrilling fishing. Do trophy trout interest you? If so, you are in luck! The North Fork River has been designated a trophy trout river by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Another necessary stopover for anglers is a local rainbow trout ranch - imagine a spring fed stream teaming with rainbow trout. So come visit our Missouri Ozarks town. We're sure you'll like what you find because Mmountain. Grove really is the Misouri Ozarks at its best. Who knows. You might even want to stay!