• An explosion of light as the sun strikes the waters of the Missouri National Recreational River

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Our Partners

The Missouri National Recreational River (MNRR) is a partnership-based park. Within the 126-mile MNRR corridor the National Park Service works with federal, state, county, and city agencies as well as commercial interests, private citizens and public interest groups to protect park resources, provide visitor services and programs, enhancing the park's ability to carry out its mission.
Among the park's many partners are:

Did You Know?

Missouri River Delta at Lewis & Clark Lake

Before the 1950s, the Missouri River carried an average of roughly 140 million tons of sediment per year past Yankton. After closure of the dams in the 1960s, an average of roughly 4 million tons per year moved past the same location.