(KFVS) - Missouri has been named the top state for camping in the United States.

About.com announced the results Friday of their annual Readers' Choice Award for Favorite State for Camping, and Missouri took top honors with the website's gold award. Other states that placed include: Montana with the silver award and Colorado with the bronze award.

“The First Lady and I are proud that Missouri has been selected as a renowned camping destination,” Gov. Nixon said. “Missouri is the perfect place to enjoy the great outdoors, so plan to experience our quiet hills, deep woodlands, wide open prairies, and clear Ozark streams on your next camping adventure, and you'll see why the readers picked Missouri as their favorite camping state."

Missouri Division of Tourism Director Katie Steele Danner credited Missouri’s State Parks and privately-held campgrounds for helping Missouri secure the top spot on About.com’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - City leaders held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, March 7 at 11:30 a.m. for the Big Bend Road project.

The ceremony was along the new Big Bend Road sidewalk.

The project was funded by the Transportation Trust Fund and was approved by voters in 2005.

Big Bend Road was widened and replaced from Olive Street to 1300 feet north of Bertling Street. The casino development on the south end of the project covered the rerouting of Big Bend Street in that area. Detours began in July 2010 and the road was fully open in January 2012.

For more information on Transportation Trust Fund projects, you can visit them online by clicking here.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The St. Louis District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host an open house event in Cape Girardeau on Thursday, Feb. 9.

The open house will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Nature Center - Multipurpose Room, 2289 County Park Drive, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. The Corps says they will be providing background information and getting public feedback on the scope of an Environmental Assessment of New River Training Structures on the middle Mississippi River.

They say the open houses will feature a brief overview of the Corps of Engineers' river engineering mission, and information stations on River Training Structures with experts available to answer questions and get public input.

River Training Structures are one of the ways the U.S. Corps of Engineers makes sure America's inland waterways are navigable for commerce, along with locks and dams, dredging and revetments.