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Ozark Nature Walks
One Hundred Nature Walks
in the Missouri Ozarks

by: Alan McPherson

The Missouri Ozarks is an area that cannot be appreciated at highway speeds. With 33,000 square miles of incredible scenery — mountains, caves, rivers, waterfalls, sinkholes, lakes, bluffs — the Missouri Ozarks offer some of the best hiking in the United States. Alan McPherson has chosen 100 locations accessible to public use across the Missouri Ozarks and describes hundreds of trails found at those sites. A veteran hiker, McPherson has personally hiked the trails listed and describes the trails and their conditions as well as noting any unusual features. He has written similar hiking books for Florida, Indiana and Southern Illinois.


Table of Contents

Foreword: Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club
xi
Acknowledgements
xii
Preface
xiii
Discovering the Missouri Ozarks
xiv
Abbreviations Used
xxi
Number Key to Sites Map
xxii
Fredericktown Area
1.
St. Francois State Park
2
2.
Hawn State Park
5
3.
Pickle Springs Natural Area
8
4.
Missouri Mines State Historic Site and St. Joe State Park
11
5.
Hughes Mountain Natural Area
15
6.
Buford Mountain Conservation Area
18
7.
Elephant Rocks State Park
21
8.
John James Audubon Trail
25
9.
Knob Lick Mountain Lookout Tower
28
10.
Silas Dees Azalea and Wildflower Preserve
30
11.
Amidon Memorial Conservation Area
33
12.
Silver Mines Recreation Area and Millstream Gardens Conservation Area
35
13.
Cathedral Canyon
38
14.
Rock Pile Mountain Wilderness
40
15.
Crane Lake Recreation Area
43
16.
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
46
Poplar Bluff Area
17.
Mingo National Wildlife Refuge
49
18.
Wappapello Lake
52
19.
Lake Wappapello State Park
55
20.
Sam A. Baker State Park
58
21.
Lon Sanders Canyon Conservation Area
62
22.
Clearwater Lake
64
23.
Markham Spring Reacreation Area
67
24.
Pinewoods Lake Recreation Area
70
Potosi/Salem Area
25.
Washington State Park
73
26.
Meramac State Park and Conservation Area
76
27.
Onondaga Cave State Park and Huzzah Conservation Area
80
28.
Zahorsky Woods
84
29.
Maramec Spring Park
86
30.
Moses Austin Trail
89
31.
Berryman Trail
91
32.
Red Bluff Recreation Area
94
33.
Dillard Mill State Historic Site
96
34.
Council Bluff Recreation Area
98
35.
Bell Mountain Wilderness
100
36.
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park
103
37.
Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant
106
38.
Sutton Bluff Recreation Area
109
39.
Grasshopper Hollow Natural Area
112
40.
Loggers Lake Recreation Area
115
Ozark Riverways: Current and Jacks Fork
41-52
Ozark Riverways: An Overview
117
41.
Montauk State Park
118
42.
Welch Spring, Hospital and Landing
121
43.
Devils Well
124
44.
Pulltite
126
45.
Round Spring
128
46.
Lick Log Hollow Trail and Angeline Conservation Area
131
47.
Powder Mill and Blue Spring Natural Area
134
48.
Rocky Falls and Rocky Creek Shut-Ins
136
49.
Watercress Spring Recreation Area
`139
50.
Skyline Trail and Skyline Drive
142
51.
Big Spring
144
52.
Alley Spring and Mill
146
Doniphan-Eleven Point Area
53.
Float Camp Recreation Area
149
54.
Big Barren Creek Natural Area and Cowards Hollow Natural Area
152
55.
Irish Wilderness
155
56.
Morgan Spring at the Narrows
158
57.
Greer Spring and Greer Crossing Recreation Area
160
58.
McCormack Lake Recreation Area
164
59.
Ponds: An Overview
166
59A
Overcup Oak Sink Natural Area
168
59B
Marg Pond Natural Area
169
59C
Grassy Pond Natural Area
170
59D
Tupelo Gum Pond Natural Area
171
59E
Brushy Pond Natural Area
172
59F
Haney Pond Natural Area
173
59G
Cupola Pond Natural Area
174
59H
Red Maple Pond Natural Area
175
60
Grand Gulf State Park
176
Ozark Trail: Eastern Loop and West Main Trail
61-72
Ozark Trail: an Overview
179
Eastern Loop
61.
Taum Sauk Section
180
62.
Marble Creek Section
184
63.
Wappapello Lake Section
187
64.
Victory Section
191
West Main Trail
65.
Courtois Creek Section
194
66.
Trace Creek Section
198
67.
Karkaghne Section
201
68.
Blair Creek Section
204
69.
Current River Section
207
70.
Between the Rivers Section
211
71.
Eleven Point Section
214
72.
North Fork River Section
218
Rolla/Houston Area
73.
Clifty Creek Natural Area and Conservation Area
221
74.
Mill Creek Recreation Area
224
75.
Lane Spring Recreation Area
227
76.
Slabtown Bluff Recreation Area
230
77.
Paddy Creek Wilderness and Recreation Area
232
78.
Horshoe Bend Natural Area
236
79.
Piney River Narrows Natural Area
238
80.
Lake of the Ozarks State Park
240
81.
Ha Ha Tonka State Park
244
82.
Bennett Spring State Park
248
83.
Pomme de Terre State Park
252
Willow Springs Area
84.
Dean Davis Conservation Area
255
85.
Tingler Lake Conservation Area
257
86.
Ridge Runner Trail
260
87.
Noblett Lake Loop, Ridge Runner Trail
263
88.
North Fork Loop, Ridge Runner Trail
266
89.
North Fork Recreation Area
269
90.
Devil's Backbone Wilderness
272
91.
Caney Mountain Conservation Area
275
Ava/Cassville Area
92.
Swan Creek Territory
278
93.
Hercules Glades Wilderness
280
94.
Springfield Nature Places
285
94A
Springfield Conservation Nature Center
286
94B
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
287
94C
Dickerson Park Zoo
288
94D
Springfield City Parks
289
94E
Crystal Cave
290
94F
Little Sac Woods Conservation Area
291
94G
Wilson Creek National Battlefield
292
94H
Busiek Conservation Area
293
95.
Henning Conservation Area
294
96.
Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery
297
97.
Piney Creek Wilderness
300
98.
Roaring River State Park
303
99.
George Washington Carver National Historic Site
306
100.
Buffalo Hills Natural Area
309
Helpful Books
312
Appendix I: Birds of Wappapello Lake
315
Appendix II: Animals of Roaring River State Park
316
Appendix III: Hiking Places in the Arkansas Ozarks
319
Index
320
 

 

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