Missouri National Parks include 1 National Heritage Area, 3 National Trails managed by the park service, and over 2200 National Register of Historic Places Listings.

Missouri Mines State Historic Site, 1-mile hike starts 9 a.m., 4000 State Highway 32 in Park Hills. Includes information on old mining structures and equipment, as well as area development over time.

Missouri has 56 state parks drawing more than 18 million visitors a year. Last year, we set out to find the “special piece” in a few of them. Masterpieces of Missouri State Parks ...

Several Missouri state parks and historic sites are again participating in this national initiative. According to Missouri State Parks, more than 1,000 hikes are available in state parks around ...

LOUIS – Missouri State Parks are celebrating National Squirrel Appreciation Day. There is the Flying squirrel, the Eastern Gray squirrel and the Eastern Fox (red) squirrel are all native to ...

Francois State Park, 1.1-mile hike starts 10 a.m. in the Big River Day-Use Area, 8920 US Highway 67N in Bonne Terre.The easy walk is a paved loop. A more challenging 3.15-milke hike starts 1 p.m ...

The Missouri state park system includes 92 state parks and historic sites, with more than 150,000 acres. Isaiah Maxi never considered himself a serious outdoorsman. He enjoyed being a multi-sport ...

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri state park has recently been ... list of "15 Best State Parks To Visit In the U.S.," which was ... as an official segment of the Lewis and Clark National ...

“Every time I come up here, I see something new,” said Bonnell, who is a superintendent for Missouri State Parks. “There’s potential to do a lot of neat things up here. ...

State parks has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management and will be competing against Ohio, Texas and Wyoming in October.