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Vessie, Missouri

Ghost town
In Vessie, Missouri
7.3 mi from Route 66

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Vessie is an extinct town near Rolla, MO, in northern Phelps County, set inside the Mark Twain National Forest. It sat on a ridge at about 1,060 feet, between Little Piney Creek on its east side and Kaintuck Hollow on its west. The spot is where Missouri Route T meets a county road, about 4 miles south of Newburg and about 6 miles off Route 66.

What is Vessie?

Vessie was a small post-office community in the eastern part of Liberty Township. The name seems to have been picked because it was brief and unlike any other. Today the site is forest ridge country rather than a town.

Visiting Vessie: tips

Plan it as a scenic national-forest drive, not a sightseeing stop. Stay on public roads. The Gourd Creek Cave site is about 2 miles away, the Lyric Live Theater about 6, and Clementine under 8.

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Gourd Creek Cave

Rolla, Missouri · 7.4 mi from Route 66

A big Ozark cave near Rolla where ancient campfires left deep ash, and locals once dug for lost gold.

1.9 mi from Vessie

Lyric Live Theater

Newburg, Missouri · 1.9 mi from Route 66

A 1919 brick small-town theater in Newburg that showed movies until 1955 and now hosts live shows.

Historic theater

6.0 mi from Vessie

Clementine

Clementine, Missouri · on Route 66

A tiny community right on the old Route 66 alignment, about fourteen miles southwest of Rolla.

7.6 mi from Vessie

Arlington

Arlington, Missouri · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A near-empty railroad and Route 66 town on the Little Piney, left at a dead end when I-44 bypassed it.

7.7 mi from Vessie

Onyx Cave

Rolla, Missouri · 0.8 mi from Route 66

A natural Ozark cave with pale cave onyx, a big main chamber and an old mining shaft from 1892.

8.4 mi from Vessie

Spring Creek

Spring Creek, Missouri · 6.0 mi from Route 66

A lost river-junction town straddling the Phelps and Pulaski county border, just east of Fort Leonard Wood.

8.5 mi from Vessie

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