[7] During the American Civil War, units of the 5th Missouri State Militia were sometimes garrisoned at Waynesville.

[8] Waynesville is located on Roubidoux Creek, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the Gasconade River.

The northern boundary of Fort Leonard Wood is about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south.

[16] Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field serves the community with air service.

Even though it is on Fort Leonard Wood, it is jointly run by the cities of Waynesville and St. Robert and is available for civilian use by private pilots and scheduled commercial passenger service.

The major north–south routes near Waynesville are: Major attractions along U.S. Route 66 include the Old Stagecoach Stop in downtown Waynesville, which is now a museum but began as a tavern and boarding house and is the oldest standing structure in the county.

KFBD-FM and its AM sister station, KJPW, are the dominant news radio providers in the Pulaski County area, which includes Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville and St. Robert.

These stations compete with the only other station broadcasting from Pulaski County, KFLW Radio, previously owned by the Lebanon Daily Record and working locally from the St. Robert offices of the Pulaski County Mirror weekly newspaper.

The Pulaski County Daily News online newspaper is privately owned by a Waynesville resident.

The Pulaski County Insider is run and maintained by a businessman from St. Robert and hosted by a Potosi resident.

The county's weekly paper, the Dixon Pilot, does not routinely cover Waynesville.

All but the weekly Dixon Pilot and the online Pulaski County Daily News are now closed.

It was owned by GateHouse Media and was the central printing plant for three other GateHouse newspapers in nearby counties, the daily Camden Lake Sun Leader and Rolla Daily News as well as the weekly St. James Leader-Journal.

The content of the now-closed weekly Fort Leonard Wood Guidon was previously produced under the auspices of Army Public Affairs at Fort Leonard Wood but printed under contract by the Springfield News-Leader, a Gannett-owned newspaper which produced and sold advertisements in the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon.