Mark Twain National Forest
National Forest · Rolla, Missouri
Missouri's only national forest, established on 11 September 1939 and named for the state's most famous writer, covering around 1.5 million acres of public land in nine separate parcels across the Ozarks. It holds 78,000 acres of designated Wilderness and, in the Eleven Point, one of the original eight rivers named to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System when the Act was passed in 1968 - which is what lifts it above a working timber forest. Most of the state's best float water, spring country and long-distance trail runs through it.
401 Fairgrounds Road, Rolla, Missouri, 65401, United States
FREE and open at all times, year round - National Forest System land with no gate and no general entrance fee. Developed recreation areas and campgrounds charge modest day-use and site fees and several close outside the warm months. THE FOREST IS NINE DISCONNECTED PARCELS spread across the southern half of Missouri, so "the forest" is not one place and the nearest ranger district office is the one to ring. Hunting seasons are set by the Missouri Department of Conservation and a state licence is required.
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