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The ___MASK63___ Scenic Byways Program is a list of highways , mainly state highways , that have been designated by the ___MASK85___ ( AHTD ) as scenic highways . The ___MASK63___ General Assembly designates routes for scenic byway status upon successful nomination . For a highway to be declared scenic , a group interested in preserving the scenic , cultural , recreational , and historic qualities of the route must be created . Mayors of all communities along the route and county judges from each affected county must be included in the organization . Scenic highways are marked with a circular shield in addition to regular route markers . The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost part of the state of Missouri , extending south of 36 ° 30  north latitude , so called because its shape in relation to the rest of the state resembles the heel of a boot . Strictly speaking , it is composed of the counties of Dunklin , New ___MASK87___ , and Pemiscot . However , the term is locally used to refer to the entire southeastern lowlands of Missouri located within the Mississippi Embayment , which includes parts of Butler , Mississippi , Ripley , Scott , Stoddard and extreme southern portions of Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties . The largest city in the region is Kennett . The Sylamore Scenic Byway is one of ten ___MASK63___ Scenic Byways . The route runs through the Ozark - St . Francis National Forest in ___MASK63___ for , almost all in Stone County . It passes through undeveloped forest land as a scenic route to Blanchard Springs Caverns . Highway 5 ( AR 5 , Ark . 5 , and Hwy . 5 ) is a designation for three state highways in ___MASK63___ . The southern segment of 44 . 99 miles ( 72 . 40 km ) runs from Highway 7 in Hot Springs north to US Highway 70 ( US 70 ) in Little Rock . A northern segment of 146 . 63 miles ( 235 . 98 km ) begins at US Highway 67 / US Highway 167 in Cabot and runs north to Missouri Route 5 , including a lengthy overlap with Highway 25 between Heber Springs and Wolf Bayou . A portion of Highway 5 is designated as part of the Sylamore Scenic Byway . The Main Street Bridge in Little Rock carries a hidden Highway 5 designation . The bridge is 0 . 38 miles ( 0 . 61 km ) in span . ___MASK63___ is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States . Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin , the Quapaw Indians . The state ' s diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains , which make up the U . S . Interior Highlands , to the densely forested land in the south known as the ___MASK63___ Timberlands , to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the ___MASK63___ Delta . The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent . Flowing entirely in the United States ( although its drainage basin reaches into Canada ), it rises in northern ___MASK64___ and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico . With its many tributaries , the Mississippi ' s watershed drains all or parts of 31 U . S . states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains . The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge . The river either borders or passes through the states of ___MASK64___ , ___MASK51___ , Iowa , Illinois , Missouri , Kentucky , Tennessee , Arkansas , Mississippi , and Louisiana . Missouri Route 5 is the longest state highway in Missouri and the only Missouri state highway to traverse the entire state . It is part of a three state , 650 mile highway 5 . To the north , it continues into Iowa as Iowa Highway 5 and to the south it enters ___MASK63___ as Highway 5 . With only a few exceptions , it is two - lane for its entire length . Business Route 5 serves Milan and Ava . The Missouri River is the longest river in North America . Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western ___MASK27___ , the Missouri flows east and south for before entering the Mississippi River north of St . Louis , Missouri . The river takes drainage from a sparsely populated , semi - arid watershed of more than half a million square miles ( 1 , 300 , 000 km ), which includes parts of ten U . S . states and two Canadian provinces . When combined with the lower Mississippi River , it forms the world ' s fourth longest river system . Kansas is a U . S . state located in the Midwestern United States . Its capital is Topeka and its largest ___MASK6___ is Wichita . Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe , which inhabited the area . The tribe ' s name ( natively "") is often said to mean " people of the wind " or " people of the south wind ", although this was probably not the term ' s original meaning . For thousands of years , what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes . Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys . Tribes in the western part of the state were semi - nomadic and hunted large herds of bison . Iowa Highway 5 is a highway in southern Iowa . It is a north  south highway with a length of . It is the northernmost segment of a three - state " Highway 5 " also involving Missouri Route 5 and ___MASK63___ Highway 5 . Portions of the highway are freeway and expressway . It had previously been designated Iowa Highway 60 . The southern terminus of Iowa Highway 5 is at the Missouri border southwest of Cincinnati . Its northern terminus is at Interstate 35 at West Des Moines . Missouri ( see pronunciations ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States , achieving statehood in 1821 . With over six million residents , it is the eighteenth most populous state and host to the mean center of United States population . The largest urban areas are St . Louis , Kansas ___MASK6___ , Springfield , and Columbia . The capitol is in Jefferson ___MASK6___ on the Missouri River . The state is the twenty - first most extensive by area and is geographically diverse . The Northern Plains were once covered by glaciers , then tallgrass prairie , and now the deep soils yield great agricultural productivity . In the South are the Ozarks , a forested highland , providing timber , minerals , and recreation . The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state , eventually flowing into the swampy Missouri Bootheel . The Ozarks , also referred to as the Ozark Mountains , Ozarks Mountain Country , and the Ozark Plateau , is a physiographic and geologic highland region of the central United States , primarily in ___MASK63___ , Missouri and Oklahoma . The Ozarks cover a significant portion of southern Missouri , extending as far northeast as the southwestern suburbs of St . Louis . In ___MASK63___ , a large portion is contained within the northwestern and northcentral region . Much smaller pieces of the Ozarks extend westward into northeastern Oklahoma and extreme southeastern Kansas . Blanchard Springs Caverns is a cave system located in the Ozark  St . Francis National Forest in Stone County in northern ___MASK63___ , 2 miles off Highway 14 a short distance north of Mountain View . Blanchard Springs Caverns is a three - level cave system , two of which are open for guided tours . The Dripstone Trail runs through the uppermost level of caverns for about a half - mile and opened in 1973 . The Discovery Trail opened in 1977 and loops through a 1 . 2 - mile section of the cavern , descending to the lower level of the cave , 366 feet underground , as well as to the Natural Entrance , about 70 feet below ground at that point , following the stream bed of the springs that created the cavern . This trail includes the Rimstone Dams , which create pools along the stream bed , and the Ghost Room with its huge white flowstone . Also offered is a " Wild Cave " tour which allows access to undeveloped parts of the cave to more adventurous visitors . It follows the upstream section of the cave in the lower levels , continuing beyond where the Discovery Trail ends . St . Louis is an independent ___MASK6___ and major U . S . port in the State of Missouri , built along the western bank of the Mississippi River , on the border with Illinois . The ___MASK6___ has an estimated 2015 population of 315 , 685 , and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St . Louis area ( home to 2 , 916 , 447 people ), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th - largest in the United States .