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Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a public recreation area covering 9,432 acres (3,817 ha) on the East Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri.The state park is jointly administered with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two parks cover more than sixteen thousand acres in the St. Francois Mountains region of the Missouri Ozarks.
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.
This is a list of state parks and state historic sites in Missouri.In the U.S. state of Missouri both state parks and state historic sites are administered by the Division of State Parks of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Bell Mountain Wilderness is northwest of Johnsons Shut-Ins and Taum Sauk state parks. The United States Congress designated the Bell Mountain Wilderness in 1980. The wilderness area now has a total of 9,027 acres (36.53 km 2).
The sudden release sent a 20-foot (6 m) crest of water northwest of the reservoir about 1.75 mi (3 km) down the ridge to the East Fork of the Black River inside the north upstream side of Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park. The river at the park is normally very shallow with rapids running over granite boulders.
Long Branch Lake is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 24 miles of shoreline and a flood-control capacity of 98,000 acre-feet.In addition to the adjacent state-run state park, the dam has a visitors center at its southern end, and the Atlanta State Wildlife Area at its northern end near Atlanta, Missouri.
The upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant failed in December 2005, causing a flood that devastated Johnson's Shut-ins State Park and destroyed a part of the Taum Sauk section of the Ozark Trail at the shut-ins.
Development plans call for facilities for hiking and walking, camping, fishing, picnicking, birdwatching, and nature study. [5] It was one of three new Missouri state parks announced in 2016. [ 3 ] The Missouri Department of Natural Resources conducted a one-day open house and guided hike of the unopened park in May 2023.