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Looking for Activities in Missouri? Spend Time in Missouri State Parks! Missouri has 50 State Parks and 39 State Historic Sites for visitors to enjoy. Activities at these facilities include tours of historic places and homes, boating, fishing, biking, four wheeling, camping, floating, walking trails and much more.Farmington Missouri is a few miles south of St. Louis on Interstate 55. Following that route to Route 67, you will see beautiful rolling hills and awesome rock walls where the road has been chiseled from the land. Farmington is not a large town, but it boasts the fact that it was the first town [...]
Enjoy the great outdoors and the beautiful Missouri scenery while out four wheeling. Spend time surrounded by hills, lakes, rivers and wooded areas. Locations within close proximity of Farmington welcome all sizes of vehicles from dirt bikes to monster trucks. Whether looking for a place to spend the day on some great back country adventures [...]
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The Crown Ridge Tiger Sanctuary, established by Joe Scott, Sr. in 2004, is located near Farmington, Missouri. The 55-acre property boasts comfortable lodging, elegant dining, a facility for privately staged events, and a sanctuary for the beautiful big cats. All the cats have been rescued from undesirable, as well as, threatening circumstances. These exotic animals [...]
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Celebrate the seasons in the picturesque town of Farmington, Missouri. Just 60 miles from St. Louis, Farmington offers all the warmth and charm of a small town with all the convenience and services of a larger city. With award winning golf courses, exceptional wineries, and an abundance of state parks in and around Farmington, there [...]
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St. Joe State Park is located in the heart of the old “Lead Belt” of southeast Missouri where much of the nation’s lead ore was extracted for more than a century. Today, the 8,238-acre St. Joe State Park is Missouri’s third largest state park, with approximately 2,000 acres set aside for the state’s premier off-road [...]
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Just as outlaws sought refuge from the law during the Civil War, visitors today can seek refuge from everyday life in the beauty of the Pike Run Hills at St. Francois State Park. Three hiking trails, one allowing equestrians, wind through the forested hills and glades of Coonville Creek Wild Area. Mooner’s Hollow Trail leads [...]
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Imagine giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants. That’s what you’ll see at Elephant Rocks State Park. Standing atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest elephant rocks, Dumbo, tops the scales at a whopping 680 tons! Visitors to Elephant Rocks State Park can easily view the granite boulders from the [...]
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The 19,000 square-foot mine-mill powerhouse has been developed into a large museum that interprets Missouri’s mining history. Located within the eastern Ozarks is an area known as the Old Lead Belt. This area was the nation’s major source lead metal for more than 60 years; it is part of the great Southeast Missouri lead district, [...]
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