Taum Sauk Mountain State Park | |
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Location | Iron and Reynolds counties, Missouri, United States |
Coordinates | 37°34′17″N 90°43′45″W / 37.57139°N 90.72917°W [1] |
Area | 8,732.23 acres (35.3381 km2) [2] |
Elevation | 1,772 ft (540 m) [1] |
Designation | Missouri state park |
Established | 1991 [3] |
Visitors | 144,160 (in 2017) [2] |
Administrator | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
Website | Taum Sauk Mountain State Park |
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a Missouri state park located in the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks. The park encompasses Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in the state. [4] 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.
In 2005, the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station was damaged and a billion gallons of water flooded parts of the park and other nearby areas. [6]
The park has a rustic campground, a paved trail to the highpoint, picnic facilities, and a lookout tower providing a view the dense mountain forest obscures from other vantage points.
Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri, [7] is reached via a rugged trail that makes a three-mile (5 km) loop from the highpoint parking area. [8] The falls have cascading waters only during times of wet weather; at other times they are reduced to a trickle or less.
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park | |
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Location | Iron and Reynolds counties, Missouri, United States |
Coordinates | 37°34′17″N 90°43′45″W / 37.57139°N 90.72917°W [1] |
Area | 8,732.23 acres (35.3381 km2) [2] |
Elevation | 1,772 ft (540 m) [1] |
Designation | Missouri state park |
Established | 1991 [3] |
Visitors | 144,160 (in 2017) [2] |
Administrator | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
Website | Taum Sauk Mountain State Park |
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a Missouri state park located in the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks. The park encompasses Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in the state. [4] 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.
In 2005, the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station was damaged and a billion gallons of water flooded parts of the park and other nearby areas. [6]
The park has a rustic campground, a paved trail to the highpoint, picnic facilities, and a lookout tower providing a view the dense mountain forest obscures from other vantage points.
Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri, [7] is reached via a rugged trail that makes a three-mile (5 km) loop from the highpoint parking area. [8] The falls have cascading waters only during times of wet weather; at other times they are reduced to a trickle or less.