Taum Sauk Mountain State Park

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Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
Missouri State Park
Country United States
State Missouri
Counties Iron, Reynolds
Elevation 1,772 ft (540 m) [1]
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Area 7,500 acres (3,035 ha) [2]
Established 1991 [3]
Management Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Visitation 90,743 (2014) [4]
Location in Missouri
Website: Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
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Contigous Taum Sauk Mountain and Johnson's Shut-ins state parks consist of 16,050 acres (65.0 km2) in the Missouri Ozarks.

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a Missouri state park located in the Saint Francois Mountains in the Ozarks. The park encompasses Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in the state.[2] 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.

Activities and amenities

The park has a rustic campground, a paved trail to the highpoint, picnic facilities, and a lookout tower from which a good view can be had; the dense forest on the mountain obscures the view from most other vantage points.

Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri,[6] is on Taum Sauk and can be visited by hiking a rugged trail that makes a three-mile (5 km) loop from the highpoint parking area.[7] The falls have cascading waters only during times of wet weather; at other times they are reduced to a trickle or less.

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