Reading the lake miles
On the Lake of the Ozarks, places are found by mile marker. Here is how they run around the Bend, mile by mile.
Osage arm · from Bagnell Dam
Mile 3
Along the north side of the Bend
- For sale now
- 8
- Sold, last 3 years
- 24
Single-family homes in the Bend whose listing records this mile. Many listings do not record one.
A mile marker is a position on the water, not a driving distance, and two homes at the same mile can be very different properties.
How they work
What a mile marker tells you
Numbered signs stand along the water. On the Osage arm, where the Bend lies, they count up from Bagnell Dam, so a mile marker says where a home sits on the lake and roughly how far it is by boat from the dam.
It does not say how long the drive is: the channel winds around the Bend, and the roads do not follow it. Nor does it make two homes alike. One can sit on open water and its neighbour up a sheltered cove, at the same mile.
- Miles 0–366
- Miles 4–783
- Miles 8–1166
- Miles 12–1529
244 of 428 sales recorded a mile; those without one are not shown. Marker positions on the map are approximate.