Location: Oregon County Missouri running east/west about 20 miles south of Winona, MO. While you are in the area be sure and drive over to the south side of the river and visit Greer Spring!

Distance: 30-miles with the East entry point on Forest Road 3152 about 4-miles east of Highway 19. (This is also the southern terminus and trailhead for the Between the Rivers Section) Trail access is also available on Hwy 19 at the Greer Crossing/Campground.

Water: Water is available in Hurricane Creek, Bockman Spring, and the Eleven Point River year around and occasionally from several other intermittant streams that the trail crosses. Water from any streams must be treated. Water availability can be a problem during the dry summer and fall months.

Parking: Overnight parking is available at four locations: At the east terminus on Forest Road 3152; at the Greer Crossing/Campground on Hwy 19; at McCormack Lake/Campground; at the west terminus on Forest Road 4155. You can also park along the road at mile-22.3 on Forest Road 3238 but there is no designated parking area.

Comments - Danny: 19Nov02 - Robert Smith and I hiked this section over November 15-17 in three segments so I have divided my notes according to each section per the mileage on the official brochure map. Going from East to West.
> Miles 0 to 10: The eastern trailhead for this section is easily accessible from Hwy 19 by taking Forest Road 3152 east from Hwy 19. The trailhead parking area is on a ridge top with plenty of parking and even room to camp if need be. From here the trail quickly drops into the Hurricane Creek Valley. This was only one of two reliable water sources that we came across besides the Eleven Point River itself. Once you 'wade' across Hurricane Creek the trail begins a gradual switchbacked climb up 400' to Leffer Look where you can see down the Eleven Point River valley to the SE. It would really be pretty with the fall colors. The high trail would be covered with a canopy of leaves during the summer months. The trail was already covered with heavy leaf fall this time of year and that masked the trail pretty good in some locations but we found the signage all along the trail to be pretty good with a mixture of OT signs and gray diamonds. This 'high' trail is the one shown on the map and it wanders along several hundred feet above the river valley except where it crosses Heckleton Hollow and Graveyard Hollow. From Graveyard Hollow the trail goes back into the river valley and on to Greer Crossing/campground at Hwy 19. One thing the map doesn't show is the 'River Land' trail that runs between Hurricane Creek and Graveyard Hollow. It follows old roads/trails along the river bottom and cuts about 5 miles off the distance. We camped at the Greer Crossing Campground one night.
> - Mile 10 to 22.3: We started west here from the Greer Crossing/Campground as the trail follows along the north bank of the Eleven Point for about 7 miles before heading north up Becky Hollow. There are some great vistas in this area as the trail gets as high as 300 feet above the river in a couple of places on the bluffs. At mile 13.1 there is a side trail up to McCormack Lake where you can also park and camp. There were also signs for the McCormack Lake Trail, which uses part of the OT, but that is not shown on the map. The McCormack Lake Trail actually splits from the OT and goes on east to Hwy 19 north of the turnoff into the Greer Crossing Campground. Becky Hollow was bone dry although Robert remembers water there when he backpacked it a few years ago. The trail goes north up Becky Hollow then climbs over a ridge and down into Threemile Hollow where it followed an old road up to the top of Devils Backbone. The trail was a little brushy as we went down the north side of Devil's Backbone ridge but then we ended up on an old road again that took us by Bockman Spring, an old spring house built in a cave entrance. This was the only realiable water source for the remainder of the trail. From here we crossed through Wolfpen Hollow and the trail followed and/or paralled an old trail back to Forest Road 3238 at mile-22.3 where we had left a vehicle.
> - Mile 22.3 to 30: From mile 22.3 the trail goes SW about 1-1/2 miles across the ridge to the bluffs above Spring Creek. The trail follows these bluffs for several miles with some great vistas of the Spring Creek Valley before it finally descends and crosses Spring Creek. Spring Creek was bone dry where we crossed it but it did have some water in some other areas, especially downstream of this crossing. We lost the trail briefly after crossing Spring Creek as the brush in the bottom obscured the trail markers along the trees off to our left (west). We ran into a nice 'buck' along the road in this creek bottom. From here the trail parallels Spring Creek as it heads on west before heading up Paty Hollow and continued on to the western terminus of this section on Forest Road 4155. We camped a night at this western trailhead.

Maps: The Eleven Point River Section Ozark Trail Map/Brochure that is available from the US Forest Service and the Ozark Trail Coordinator. The map/brochure is very adequate for this trip. However, if you want to save some time shuttling your vehicles you should get a copy of the USFS local district map that shows all of the Forest Roads so you can cut across from Hwy 99 to Hwy 19. The USGS 7-1/2 minutes quad sheets for this section are Greer, Piedmont, and Thomasville.