Uranus Blog

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: September 28, 2026 | Last updated: September 28, 2026   The best fudge on Route 66 in Missouri comes from Uranus. That’s not a boast — it’s just what’s there. Uranus Fudge Factory & General Store at 14400 Hwy Z in St. Robert is the only full-scale fudge factory […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 9/21/26 | Last updated: 9/21/26 Waynesville is a better couples destination than most people expect from a small Route 66 town in the Missouri Ozarks. The combination of historic downtown streets, a cold freshwater spring with a local legend attached to it, good food and beer, river floats through […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 9-14-26 | Last updated: 9-14-26   Waynesville has a better restaurant scene than most people expect from a small Missouri Ozarks town. The Fort Leonard Wood population brings steady demand, and the Route 66 corridor through the county attracts visitors who want something better than a chain. Here’s the […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 9/8/26 | Last updated: 9/8/26 Waynesville is a small Route 66 town in the Missouri Ozarks with more family-friendly options than most people expect. There’s a splash park, a fully accessible playground, a cold-water spring that kids love in summer, two free museums on the historic square, a community […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 9/2/26 | Last updated: 9/2/26 Waynesville is the Pulaski County seat — a small Route 66 town on the banks of the Roubidoux River with more history per block than most Missouri cities ten times its size. The 1903 courthouse is one of only two period courthouses left on […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 8/26/26 | Last updated: 8/26/26 Uranus Fudge Factory & General Store sits at the geographic center of Missouri — halfway between St. Louis and Springfield on I-44, in the heart of the Ozarks, on Historic Route 66. That central location makes St. Robert one of the best bases for […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 8-19-26 | Last updated: 8-19-26 Author Jack D. Rittenhouse, who drove every mile of Route 66 in 1946 and wrote the first travel guide to the highway, described the Pulaski County stretch as “one of the most beautiful sections of the Ozarks.” That was 80 years ago. The limestone […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 8/13/26 | Last updated: 8/13/26 Pulaski County is genuinely good family territory — historic earthworks, river floats, military museums, a water park, a nature trail with a Trail of Tears marker, and a fudge shop with an 18-hole pirate mini golf course and a secret river shortcut that can […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 8/3/26 | Last updated: 8/3/26 Two of the best float rivers in the Missouri Ozarks run right through Pulaski County — the Big Piney and the Gasconade — and both are within easy reach of Fort Leonard Wood. The Big Piney flows through the hamlet of Devil’s Elbow before […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 7/30/26 | Last updated: 7/30/26 Missouri has 317 miles of Route 66 and enough good food along it to make the drive as much about eating as it is about driving. From a frozen custard stand that’s been on Chippewa Street in St. Louis since 1941 to a barbecue […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 7-22-26 | Last updated: 7-22-26 St. Robert, Missouri has over 20 hotels and motels within a few miles of Uranus Fudge Factory & General Store — more options than most people expect, largely because Fort Leonard Wood generates steady demand year-round. Whether you’re stopping for one night on a […]

By Alex Bradford Cobb | Published: 7-14-26 | Last updated: 7-14-26 St. Robert, Missouri sits right off I-44 in the heart of the Ozarks, adjacent to Fort Leonard Wood and on the original alignment of Historic Route 66. It’s a small city that punches well above its weight for things to do — partly because […]