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The Ozark Trail had its beginnings in the 1970s when a group of public land managers, land owners, and trail users met to discuss the concept of a long-distance hiking trail. A comprehensive state outdoor recreation plan prepared by the state of Missouri in 1975 showed a need for an addition of 500 to 900 miles (805 to 1,448 km) of hiking trails.
The Ozark Trail was a network of locally maintained roads and highways organized by the Ozark Trails Association that predated the United States federal highway system. The roads ran from St. Louis , Missouri , to El Paso , Texas , and Santa Fe , New Mexico , over a series of routes. [ 1 ]
The background color of the map did not reproduce properly, so it has been added as a bottom layer: 05:09, 25 April 2009: 1,414 × 922 (443 KB) Kbh3rd {{Information |Description={{en|1=This is a schematic map of the Ozark Trails network of automobile roads established by local groups across several U.S. states in the early part of the twentieth ...
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.
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
Much of the Ozark trail is located in the Mark Twain National Forest.The forest officially opened in the 1930s. ... The best way to find this trail is to download the free online trail maps ...
Y-shaped trail commemorating the historic route of the Overmountain Men. Ozark Highlands Trail: 218 351 Arkansas: through the Ozark National Forest: Ozark Trail: 350 563 Missouri: Pacific Crest Trail: 2,654 4,271 West Coast: Mexico: Canada: traverses Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range paralleling the Pacific Ocean in California, Oregon and ...
The 33-mile (53 km) Taum Sauk section of the Ozark Trail is considered by the Ozark Trail Association to be one of the finest trails in Missouri. [8] Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri, is on Taum Sauk and can be visited by hiking a rugged trail that makes a 3-mile (4.8 km) loop from the highpoint parking area.