State Parks

Here in Missouri, we’re lucky to be a crossroads for birds heading south or overwintering here. Here’s a Guide to preparing your backyard for overwintering birds as well as a photo contest you can enter.

National Public Lands Day is coming right up, this Saturday, September 24, and all entry fees will be waived at national parks and other federal public lands, including national monuments, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, historical sites, battlefields, recreation areas, and grasslands. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is also on federal land.

Veterans can fish for free all day Saturday, September 17, 2022, at Roaring River State Park.

A Visual Tribute to Missouri’s State Parks and Historic Sites.

The old tavern at Arrow Rock was purchased on this date as the first step in saving the town's jewels of American history.

The EPA announced that it had identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, MO on this date in Missouri history.

The Bootheel is influenced more by Memphis than by St. Louis, and the area definitely is a member in good standing of the Old South. Stuck like a hatchet in the forehead of Arkansas, the Bootheel and its people, for the most part, feel alienated from the rest of Missouri.