Editing Clarksville, Missouri (section)

== Tourism ==
Clarksville has an Eagle Days weekend when eagle watching, bird education, and other activities take place. The event is sponsored by the [[Missouri Department of Conservation]], the city of Clarksville and the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://clarksvillemo.org/events.html|title=Official Website City of Clarks|website=clarksvillemo.org|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref>

A skylift was a popular tourist attraction from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. The lookout point, offering a view of 800 square miles, is the highest on the Mississippi River. There were plans to reopen it in the early 2000s, but the project has faced challenge from the [[Sac and Fox Nation]] of [[Oklahoma]] as the skylift is on an ancient [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[Tumulus|burial mound]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hannibal.net/article/20100209/NEWS/302099883|title=Clarksville skylift could re-open this summer|last=ENGEL|first=BRENT|website=Hannibal Courier - Post - Hannibal, MO|language=en|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref>