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Maple Woods Natural Area: 1980: Clay: state Contains a nearly virgin sugar maple and mockernut hickory forest. Maramec Spring: October 1971: St. James: Phelps: private A natural spring, the fifth largest in the state. It has a notable trout park and a historic iron works in a privately owned park.
Pages in category "National Natural Landmarks in Missouri" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is ...
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 ]
Big Oak Tree State Park is a state-owned nature preserve with recreational features encompassing 1,029 acres (416 ha) in East Prairie, Missouri, United States.The state park was established in a large expanse of drained cropland in 1938 to protect some of the largest trees in the state and in the nation. [5]
Golden Prairie is a 630-acre (2,500,000 m 2) tallgrass prairie named for its proximity to Golden City in the U.S. state of Missouri. The core 320-acre (1,300,000 m 2) area is a National Natural Landmark. Purple coneflowers (Echinacea pallida) at sunrise on Golden Prairie
Geologically Mark Twain Cave and its nearby neighbor Cameron Cave differ from most of the 6,500+ caves found in Missouri. Both are believed to be remnants of a much larger cave system cut apart by a glacier and millions of years of erosion, leading to speculation by geologists and common citizens alike that there may be further undiscovered caves in the Hannibal region.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]