It started out as a Boy Scout Trail and became a State Park, there's info from the Missouri Dept of Natural Resources online and at the office on site. There are trails, paved and gravel roads, a large platform viewing deck at one parking lot, and a tower at another both are too. It is actually a mountain and it stands only 1690 above sea level and maybe has some floor to base views 600 to 1000 feet ....it was created 1.5 billion years ago and is virtually solid granite. The top.is more like a long ridge top.than it is a peak. There's a nice waterfall along the trail and nearby is Tom Sauk Lakes and dam, you should read about them....The whole area is considered the St. Francois Mountains, it is much older than the Ozark Plain that surrounds them to the south, west, and north....it's a place on earth that doesn't appear to have ever been submerged by an ocean ....Second oldest known formations in North America ...in a word, mystic for those aware of their surroundings
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The actual "trail" to the highest point is more like a sidewalk, it's a paved path from the parking lot. Very little grade if any so one could easily push a stroller to it. It only a few hundred meters from the parking lot.
There's not a traditional top since it's not an actual mountain. There is a marked highest point in Missouri that you can stand on near the parking lot trailhead.
The trailhead starts at the top but the scenic stuff is down the trail, down the mountain.
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