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Hiking Missouri Hiking Missouri
About the Product
Explore the beauty of Missouri on foot! Whether you’re looking for a short and simple hike or a longer, more challenging trek, Hiking Missouri will lead you to the right trail.
Author Kevin Lohraff-former national park ranger, natural history biologist, and state park naturalist-has hiked every trail in Hiking Missouri. In fact, he hiked more than 250 Missouri trails before selecting the 102 best routes for the book. All of the trails can be hiked in a day, although some trails can be linked together for a multiday hike.
Filled with 148 easy-to-read park and trail maps, Hiking Missouri features hikes in every corner of the state, from Mark Twain’s old stomping grounds in the north to the tourist mecca of the Ozarks in the south. For each of the 58 parks and nature areas in the book, you’ll find the following:
• Selected trail descriptions-including the length and difficulty of each trail-plus detailed information on featured trails
• Maps of the park and of each featured trail
• Practical information on how to get to the park, park hours, available facilities, permits and rules, and a contact address and phone number
• A brief description of the park’s history and terrain
• Details on nearby parks and recreational opportunities, including contact phone numbers
The book guides you through every turn in the trail, pointing out plants, wildlife, and special features you’ll see along the way. The convenient trail finder summarizes essential information about each featured trail so you can select an ideal hike.
About the Author
Kevin M. Lohraff has worked in the natural resource management field since 1987. As a park naturalist at Meramec State Park, he led presentations, tours, and programs for groups of park visitors concerning local flora, fauna, caves, and natural habitats and communities. He also spent two years as a natural history biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, learning about the state’s native plants and becoming familiar with its natural areas. As a national park ranger in New Jersey, he independently pioneered an entomological study that helped lead to an endangered species-a beach tiger beetle-being reintroduced to the park.
Lohraff holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Southwest Missouri State University. A resident of Jefferson City, Missouri, he enjoys canoeing, fishing, and gravel bar camping on Ozark streams.
Table of Contents
Part I: North
Chapter 1. Cuivre River State Park
Chapter 2. Graham Cave State Park
Chapter 3. Rock Bridge Memorial State Park
Chapter 4. Katy Trail State Park
Chapter 5. Mark Twain State Park and Historic Site
Chapter 6. Battle of Athens State Historic Site
Chapter 7. Thousand Hills State Park
Chapter 8. Pershing State Park
Chapter 9. Crowder State Park
Chapter 10. Wallace State Park
Chapter 11. Weston Bend State Park
Chapter 12. Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Part II: Southeast
Chapter 13. Urban St. Louis
Chapter 14. Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park
Chapter 15. Mastodon State Historic Site
Chapter 16. Trail of Tears State Park
Chapter 17. Big Oak Tree State Park
Chapter 18. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge
Chapter 19. Lake Wappapello State Park
Chapter 20. Sam A. Baker State Park
Chapter 21. Rock Pile Mountain Wilderness
Chapter 22. Silver Mines Recreation Area
Chapter 23. Crane Lake Recreation Area
Chapter 24. Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
Chapter 25. Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park
Chapter 26. Bell Mountain Wilderness
Chapter 27. Elephant Rocks State Park
Chapter 28. Hawn State Park
Chapter 29. St. Francois State Park
Chapter 30. Washington State Park
Chapter 31. Meramec State Park
Chapter 32. Onondaga Cave State Park
Chapter 33. Big Spring
Chapter 34. Peck Ranch Conservation Area
Part III: South Central
Chapter 35. Grand Gulf State Park
Chapter 36. Greer Spring
Chapter 37. McCormack Recreation Area
Chapter 38. Alley Spring
Chapter 39. Lane Spring Recreation Area
Chapter 40. Mill Creek
Chapter 41. Stone Mill Spring Recreation Area
Chapter 42. Slabtown River Access
Chapter 43. Paddy Creek Wilderness
Chapter 44. Lake of the Ozarks State Park
Chapter 45. Arrow Rock State Historic Site
Chapter 46. Van Meter State Park
Chapter 47. Ha Ha Tonka State Park
Chapter 48. Bennett Spring State Park
Chapter 49. Hercules Glades Wilderness
Part IV: Southwest
Chapter 50. Pomme de Terre State Park
Chapter 51. Harry S Truman State Park
Chapter 52. Knob Noster State Park
Chapter 53. Urban Kansas City
Chapter 54. Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield
Chapter 55. Piney Creek Wilderness
Chapter 56. Roaring River State Park
Chapter 57. George Washington Carver National Monument
Chapter 58. Prairie State Park
Words of Praise
"Hiking Missouri will help people enjoy and understand outdoor Missouri. Kevin Lohraff has featured many of Missouri’s most interesting trails with up-to-date, first hand information that will be helpful both in planning a hike and in doing one. His knowledge and skill as a naturalist show through in each trail description as he shares insight on the plants, animals, geology, conservation, and cultural history that make each trail special."
Richard Thom
Chief of the Natural History Section of the Missouri Conservation Department and Chairman of the Missouri Natural Areas Committee
"A very handy, and accurate, trail guide. I found some old favorites, and some soon-to-be favorites."
Tom Uhlenbrock
Environmental Writer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NOTE: This is nonreturnable product and all purchases are final.
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