Mark Twain National Forest
Missouri
Missouri may have only one national forest, but what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. Mark Twain National Forest is a land of limestone mountains of surprising steepness, clear-rushing streams perfect for canoeing, and a diversity of plant life as remarkable as it is endlessly interesting.
Mark Twain National Forest
Wildflowers and wildlife is plentiful, making the forest popular with hunters, trappers, fishers, and wildlife photographers and observers. Hikers can pick and choose trails from one of the country's richest trail systems.
Lying mostly in the Ozark Plateau, Mark Twain is 1.5 million acres of forested area that was once given up for dead after timbering operations denuded these hills by the turn of the century. Careful stewardship has brought the forest back to life, and the forest now holds some of the Midwest's wildest, most remote land. In all, seven federally designated wilderness areas cover 63,000 acres of the forest, including Bell Mountain Wilderness in the St. Francois Mountains, one of the oldest landmasses in North America.
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