**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Dillard Mill is one of Missouri’s best-preserved examples of a water-powered gristmill. It sits along the clear-flowing Ozark stream, Huzzah Creek. The red mill is nestled among […]
FELIX VALLE HOUSE STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Travel back to Missouri’s early French roots at Felix Vallé House State Historic Site. Felix Vallé House State Historic Site is composed of several buildings that preserve […]
FIRST MISSOURI STATE CAPITOL STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Located within a stone’s throw of the Missouri River and Katy Trail State Park, and in the heart of historic St. Charles, First Missouri State Capitol State Historic […]
GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING BOYHOOD HOME STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Explore a piece of America’s military history at Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site and learn about the experiences that molded a Laclede country […]
LOWER WHITE RIVER MUSEUM STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Here you’ll discover the role of Arkansas’s White River with emphasis on the Lower White, as one of the vital transportation routes for the first settlers who […]
MAMMOTH SPRING STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Mammoth Spring is Arkansas’s largest spring and the second largest spring in the Ozark Mountains. A National Natural Landmark, the spring flows nine million gallons of […]
HARRY S TRUMAN BIRTHPLACE STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** See where “The Buck” started at Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site. Visitors can view the small frame house where the future President was born, and […]
HUNTER-DAWSON STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** The Hunter-Dawson home illustrates the lifestyle and culture of one particular wealthy southeast Missouri family. The time is prior to the Civil War. However, such houses and […]
JEFFERSON LANDING STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** After the seat of government moved to the city of Jefferson in 1826, the lower end of Jefferson Street became a lively commercial and transportation hub on […]
OZARK FOLK CENTER STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** The Ozark Folk Center of Mountain View, Arkansas is America’s only facility that works to share the heritage and way of life of the Ozark Mountain […]
PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Exhibits and programs interpret the history of cotton agriculture in Arkansas from statehood in 1836 through World War II, when agricultural practices quickly became mechanized. Learn […]
POWHATAN HISTORIC STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Throughout the 1800s, this busy port on the Black River was one of the chief shipping and distribution points for northern Arkansas. In 1888, high on a […]
MARK TWAIN BIRTHPLACE STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Nothing says “Missouri literature” like Mark Twain. And nothing says “Mark Twain was here” like the state historic site that bears his name. Mark Twain Birthplace State […]
MARK TWAIN STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Mark Twain State Park was established in the 1920s through the efforts of the Mark Twain Memorial Park Association. It was created in honor of the famous […]
PRAIRIE GROVE BATTLEFIELD STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Recognized nationally as one of America’s most intact Civil War battlefields, Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park protects the battle site and interprets the Battle of Prairie Grove. […]
MASTODON STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Looking to take a trip to where something big happened? Try Mastodon State Historic Site. The site is the home of the Kimmswick Bone Bed. It is one […]
MISSOURI MINES STATE HISTORIC SITE
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Lead has been big business in the eastern Ozarks since about 1720. Come explore its history and see the processing plant of the former St. Joe Lead […]
MISSOURI STATE MUSEUM
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** The Missouri State Museum is where visitors go to immerse themselves in the history of the Show-Me State. The museum houses an impressive collection of exhibits portraying […]
ONONDAGA CAVE STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Missouri’s natural beauty doesn’t just lie above ground. Beneath its surface lies more than 5,500 caves and some of the state’s most scenic natural wonders. Volcanic activity, […]
ROUTE 66 STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your MISSOURI STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Missouri State Park website by clicking HERE.** Travel through history on The Mother Road at Route 66 State Park. Route 66 captured Americans’ imagination and exposed millions of citizens to small towns and different […]