Tom Sawyer Island
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One path on the island splits between "Tom & Huck’s Way" and the "Other Way". Following in the footsteps of our fictional friends leads to a barrel bridge where you can venture over the water an a very bouncy set of barrels which have been lashed together and spread out over the river’s bobbing surface.
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TSI is home to Aunt Polly’s Dockside Inn- the absolute best place to have a snack. Among the offerings are sandwiches, cookies and soft serve ice cream that just doesn’t seem to taste as good anywhere else.
All over Tom Sawyer Island, small streams bubble, helping to sustain the local wildlife. Eventually these streams feed into the river which encircles The Island. That river can often seem as timeless as the one which inspired Mark Twain to first conceive of so many fascinating stories. The river is regularly plied by a steamboat, less often by keel boats, sailing ships, and canoes, but is best enjoyed - as Tom Sawyer and his friends discovered on the night they made their escape - by raft.
Luckily, we don’t have to travel back in time to a small Missouri town to enjoy the rare and often overlooked experience which TSI offers. We simply need to follow a certain kind of treasure map, find the shoreline of a special little river, and hop on a raft.
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-- Posted July 8, 2002
-- Story and pictures by Eric Hageman