Parks
Looking for Activities in Missouri? Spend Time in Missouri State Parks! Missouri has 50 State Parks and 39 State Historic Sites for visitors to enjoy. Activities at these facilities include tours of historic places and homes, boating, fishing, biking, four wheeling, camping, floating, walking trails and much more.St. Joe State Park is located in the heart of the old “Lead Belt” of southeast Missouri where much of the nation’s lead ore was extracted for more than a century. Today, the 8,238-acre St. Joe State Park is Missouri’s third largest state park, with approximately 2,000 acres set aside for the state’s premier off-road [...]
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Just as outlaws sought refuge from the law during the Civil War, visitors today can seek refuge from everyday life in the beauty of the Pike Run Hills at St. Francois State Park. Three hiking trails, one allowing equestrians, wind through the forested hills and glades of Coonville Creek Wild Area. Mooner’s Hollow Trail leads [...]
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Imagine giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants. That’s what you’ll see at Elephant Rocks State Park. Standing atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest elephant rocks, Dumbo, tops the scales at a whopping 680 tons! Visitors to Elephant Rocks State Park can easily view the granite boulders from the [...]
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The 19,000 square-foot mine-mill powerhouse has been developed into a large museum that interprets Missouri’s mining history. Located within the eastern Ozarks is an area known as the Old Lead Belt. This area was the nation’s major source lead metal for more than 60 years; it is part of the great Southeast Missouri lead district, [...]
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Fort Davidson State Historic Site preserves Fort Davidson and the Pilot Knob battlefield where so many Confederate and Union soldiers lost their lives. A visitor center interprets the battle and Maj. Gen. Price’s raid. It features exhibits, a research library, an audiovisual presentation and a fiber optics diorama of the battle. Nearby, a playground and [...]
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Many visitors believe that Hawn State Park is the loveliest of Missouri’s state parks, with forests of pine and oak, sandstone bluffs and canyons, and clear sand-bottom streams. The 4,953-acre park preserves some of the finest areas for viewing Missouri’s wide variety of natural wonders. The 2,880-acre Whispering Pine Wild Area offers excellent opportunities to [...]
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Lake Wappapello is popular with fishermen who cast their lines in hopes of reducing the excellent population of white bass, crappie and bluegill, as well as largemouth bass and catfish. Nestled in the southeast region of Missouri, Lake Wappapello State Park offers a variety of recreation opportunities ranging from an exciting day on Lake Wappapello [...]
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With the ancient St. Francois Mountains, the unspoiled natural landscape and the cool waters of the St. Francois River and Big Creek, Sam A. Baker State Park has something for everyone. A boat launch offers access to the river, and anglers hook bluegill, bass, crappie, sunfish, goggle eye and catfish in the river and creek. [...]
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