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Gray Summit is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,701 at the 2010 census. [4] Also called "Gray's Summit", it was founded by Daniel Gray of New York, who built a hotel here in 1845. [5] It is located on Missouri Route 100 just north of Interstate 44. [6]
Magnolia groves and daffodil fields grace the Nature Reserve in the spring. Shaw Nature Reserve lies south of I-44 at Gray Summit, Missouri. Shaw Nature Reserve, formerly known as Shaw Arboretum, is a 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) private non-profit nature reserve located in Gray Summit, Missouri, that is operated as an extension of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
In the U.S. state of Missouri both state parks and state historic sites are administered by the Division of State Parks of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. As of 2017 the division manages a total of 92 parks and historic sites plus the Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry , which together total more than 200,000 acres (81,000 ha). [ 1 ]
The orchids were moved to the land, then called the Gray Summit Extension, the following year, but were restored to the original location of the garden when pollution waned. The Missouri Botanical Garden kept the land, and over the next fifty years, amounting eventually to the 2,444 acre (9.89 km 2) parcel currently known as Shaw Nature Reserve.
Villa Ridge is located in northeastern Franklin County. It is on Missouri Route M between Interstate 44 two miles to the south and Missouri Route 100 one mile north. Pacific is seven miles east and Union is six miles to the west.
As of the census [8] of 2010, there were 509 people, 216 households, and 114 families living in the village. The population density was 795.3 inhabitants per square mile (307.1/km 2).
Most of Route 100 is part of the Lewis and Clark Trail.From Kirkwood Rd in Kirkwood to three miles (5 km) west of Wildwood is one section, where the trail turns off on Route T. Route T will eventually end, once again, at Route 100 northwest of I-44 and continue down Route 100 all the way to five miles (8 km) north of Linn (where Route 100 ends), and the Lewis and Clark Trail turns off onto ...
Parkway is located just southeast of Saint Clair on Missouri Routes 30 and 47, approximately 1.25 miles east of Interstate 44.The Meramec River flows past, about two miles to the east.