Parks and lakes are one thing. Here is what there is to do in Moberly and Randolph County when it is raining, dark, or February.
Movies
B&B Theatres Moberly Five and Drive
3000 North Morley Street · 660-263-8100
bbtheatres.com
Five screens with luxury electric recliners, a full-service bar serving cocktails, beer, wine and mocktails, auditorium rentals for private parties, and trivia and bingo nights.
And a drive-in, open March through October, weather permitting. It is one of only three indoor-outdoor movie theatres in North America.
Roughly Monday to Thursday 3 to 10 p.m., Friday 3 p.m. to midnight, Saturday noon to midnight, Sunday noon to 10 p.m. Some listings give a South Morley address and a 263-2000 number — both are wrong. Use the numbers above, which are the theater’s own.
4th Street Theatre, 12 North 4th Street. Built in 1912 and still running classic movie nights, plays and concerts. Schedule goes out on its Facebook page. More in our 4th Street Theatre folder.
Dirt track racing
Moberly Motorsports Park
4081 US-24, Moberly · 660-833-3639
A four-tenths-mile high-banked clay oval, formerly Randolph County Raceway, bought by new owners in 2022. From Highway 63, take the off-ramp to US-24, turn east and drive about four miles.
It is very much running. The 2026 season included the sixth annual Weiner Nationals over Labor Day weekend and a two-night ASCS National Tour stop in September. Classes include B Modifieds, Late Models, 305 winged sprints, vintage cars and Hornets.
Admission: adults $12, seniors $9, students $5, kids 10 and under free, and parking is free. Pit pass $30, or $15 for kids arriving with a team.
Race night schedule: grandstands open 4 p.m., hot laps 5:45, racing at 6. Drivers: pit gates 3 p.m., drivers meeting 5:15.
Check the night before you go. Some listings still say the track races Tuesdays; the 2026 event log is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The track’s Facebook page is the schedule everyone actually uses.
HLR Motorsports — motocross
8856 Highway BB, Huntsville · 660-263-4321
Running since 1994. Hosts AMA area qualifier rounds, the AMA Missouri State MX Series Pro-Am, the annual Hot Summer Nights MX series, and its own track championship series for bikes and quads. Racing every summer.
Museums and history
Randolph County Historical Center
223 North Clark Street · 660-263-9396
April to October: Monday 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Includes a genealogical library and exhibits on General Omar Bradley. Note the very short hours — four hours a week, half the year. More in our Historical Society folder.
Railroad Museum & Caboose, Depot Park
100–198 North Sturgeon Street · 660-263-9396
Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April through October
Focused on the Wabash Railroad. The caboose and the Pullman car the Indiana are open for tours whenever the museum is open.
Evelyn E. Jorgenson Fine Arts Gallery
101 College Avenue, on the MACC campus · 660-456-4100 ext. 11626
Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open far more hours than anything else on this page.
Things to do with a group
MO Axe Company — 535 West Reed Street. Axe throwing, open since early 2023.
A Stroke of Magic — 215 West Reed Street, 660-372-5000. Painting parties and craft events, and the whole place can be rented for birthdays and bachelorette parties.
Boots Farm Pumpkins — 4255 County Road 2730, 660-651-6699. Corn maze and pumpkin patch, open seasonally.
Bowling — read this before you drive over
Community Lanes at 1616 N. Morley Street closed for good in May 2013, which was widely reported at the time.
A business called Memory Lanes appears at that same address, 1616 N. Morley, with the phone number 660-263-7925. We could not verify it from any first-party source. It shows up only on bowling directories and travel aggregators, and it is listed by neither the Moberly Area Chamber of Commerce directory nor the Moberly visitors bureau’s attractions page.
So: call 660-263-7925 before you load the kids in the car. We are not going to tell you the town has a bowling alley when we cannot confirm it, and we are not going to tell you it doesn’t when a number is out there. If you know, tell us and we will correct this.
The Amish community at Clark
About 15 minutes outside Moberly, at Clark. Furniture shops, a bakery, a country store, a quilt shop and greenhouses, plus craft auctions in spring and fall. A genuine day out that costs nothing but gas.
Seasonal, free, and worth the calendar
Moberly Parks & Recreation runs a heavy events calendar, and most of it costs nothing.
Christmas Lights in the Park — November 29 to December 23, Rothwell Park, entrance at the Lodge. Thousands of lights and over 150 displays. Free, with donations going to Altrusa, which also holds the annual tree lighting. The drive-through closes the evening of the annual 5K and reopens around 7:30 p.m.
Magic City 4th of July Extravaganza — all day, main event at Howard Hils Athletic Complex. Free entry to live music and fireworks; food and drink vendors on site.
Art in the Park — every Tuesday in July, 10 to 11 a.m., at the Lake Pavilion in Rothwell Park (417 Rothwell Park Road, the shelter by the Candy Cane City playground). Ages 2 to 10, free, one craft per child while supplies last. Run by the Little Dixie Regional Library.
Ultimate Adventure Obstacle Course — a morning at the Athletic Complex, free, all ages, best for 4 to 12.
Also on the calendar through the year: the Allen Train Robbery Reenactment, the Frosty 5K, the Trick-or-Treat Trail, Santa in the Park, the Egg Hunt, the Father Daughter Dance, the Mother Daughter Tea, Lifeguard for a Day, Legendary Creatures and a coloring page contest.
Two more from the department that are worth knowing about: Unplug With Us, a published list of 75 screen-free family activities in the parks, and Park History Stories, where the city posts local history — including “The Fish With Three Eyes In Rothwell Lake” and “The Phantom at Rothwell Lake Dam.”
Elsewhere in the county
Randolph County has eight incorporated communities: Moberly, Huntsville (the county seat), Cairo, Clark, Clifton Hill, Higbee, Jacksonville and Renick.
Higbee
Higbee is the only small town in the county that publishes its park information, and it has two.
Robert Westfall Jr. Memorial Park, 129 N. Railroad Street — basketball court, baseball field, two shelter houses and playground equipment. It was Katy Park, named for the railroad that owned the land and gave it to the town when the line was decommissioned. Renamed in 2024 for Robert Westfall Jr., killed in Vietnam; Higbee is a Purple Heart City and a monument now stands in the park.
Alton Lake Park, 131 W. Adams Street — half basketball court, picnic area, fishing and a boat ramp. Named for the Alton Railroad, which built the lake to water its steam engines.
Both parks are open 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. No swimming in the lake. Pets leashed and cleaned up after. No driving on grass, no overnight parking, no camping, parking only on the gravel. No alcohol, no fires of any kind, no fireworks, no excessive noise.
Shelter reservations go through Higbee City Hall, 106 N. Railroad Street, open Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. First come, first served, one day maximum, and requests must be in at least seven business days ahead.
Huntsville, Cairo, Clark, Clifton Hill, Jacksonville and Renick
We will be straight with you: we could not find verifiable park or recreation information for any of these six. Huntsville’s official presence is a Facebook page — the town has no working website. The other five have no official website listed by the county at all.
Rather than repeat what search engines return — which for “Huntsville parks” is reliably Huntsville, Alabama — we would rather leave a hole here and fill it properly. If you live in one of these towns and know what your park has, tell us. We will build it out and credit nobody, which is how this site works.
Hours and prices change, and small-town venues change fastest. Verified against each venue’s own published pages where one exists. Know better? Tell us.
