Where is your quiet, get-away-from-it-all place in or around COMO?
- "Where is your quiet, get-away-from-it-all place in or around COMO?" originally appeared in the June 2025 "Outdoors" issue of COMO Magazine.
Columbia is home to numerous peaceful trails, parks, and scenic spots. We asked, you answered: Where is your quiet, get-away-from-it-all place in or around COMO?
Davisdale Conservation Area, DC Rogers Lake, Finger Lakes
– Brandon Butler
The Hart Creek Trail just outside Hartsburg
– Jennifer Dolan Grabner
Rocheport on the river. We were just there last week.
– Gary Rhoades
Capen Park
– Courtney Jamison
The Big Tree, Eagle Bluffs, MKT Trail, and anywhere near the MO River!
– Bob Crow
Eagle Bluffs for sure …
– Dennis Smarr
MO River, Katy Trail
– Brett Dufur
Rock Bridge Memorial State Park
– Beth Pike
I love that Grindstone has off-leash dog hiking areas!
– Ashley Burk Switzer
Three Creeks
– Sarah Hill
Les Bourgeois A-Frame, Cooper’s Landing, Murry’s, Herman Hill Inn and Vineyard, Capen Park, MKT trail
– Suzanne Rothwell
The Pinnacles or Three Creeks
– Ashley Lasiter
The future at pedestrianized 9th street (no more cruising loud trucks/motorcycles)
– Jackson Hotaling
The Grind South — in the room off to the side, where I can study
– Sarah Ramsey
Rocheport
– Logan Warren
Grindstone Trail
– Sydney Meyer
Toasty Goat Coffee Co. or Acola Coffee Company!
– Sam Fleury
The sunroom at the library
– Stephanie Mayse
I love Shelter Gardens. It’s so peaceful.
– Kelsey Winkeljohn
The Grind on Rangeline
– Ashley Craft
Just twelve miles south of Columbia off Route K. Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area for pure serenity, even when there are no waterfowl, eagles, kooky little coots, or beavers to watch. Then just a quarter mile further to The Big Tree – Missouri’s champion Bur Oak.
– Jodie Jackson Jr
MU Campus, Peace Park and the Quad in particular
– Michael Poehlman
Finger Lakes State Park
– Brandon Knight
Cooper’s Landing Riverside Resort & Marine, and Pierpont General Store
– Casey Twidwell
My backyard
– Angela Huntington
My family love Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, especially down near the cave entrance.
– Kathryn Deters
I like to go to the Quad and meander to Peace Park.
– Ed Elsea