Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
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Taum Sauk Mountain State Park | |
Missouri State Park | |
Country | United States |
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State | Missouri |
Counties | Iron, Reynolds |
Elevation | 1,772 ft (540 m) [1] |
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Area | 7,500 acres (3,035 ha) [2] |
Established | 1991 [3] |
Management | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
Visitation | 90,743 (2014) [4] |
Website: Taum Sauk Mountain State Park | |
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Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a Missouri state park located in the Saint Francois Mountains in the Ozarks. The park encompasses Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in the state.[2] The Taum Sauk portion of the Ozark Trail connects the park with nearby Johnson's Shut-ins State Park[5] and the Bell Mountain Wilderness Area, which together are part of a large wilderness area popular with hikers and backpackers.
Activities and amenities
The park has a rustic campground, a paved trail to the highpoint, picnic facilities, and a lookout tower from which a good view can be had; the dense forest on the mountain obscures the view from most other vantage points.
Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri,[6] is on Taum Sauk and can be visited by hiking a rugged trail that makes a three-mile (5 km) loop from the highpoint parking area.[7] The falls have cascading waters only during times of wet weather; at other times they are reduced to a trickle or less.
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