St Francois Mountains Missouri Part II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
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The 1.5-billion-year-old St. Francois Mountains are a geological rarity. Formed by volcanoes hundreds of millions of years before the Rockies and Appalachian mountains formed, the St. Francois Mountains are some of the oldest in North America. In fact, the mountains have been around 4x longer than trees have existed. Taum Sauk Mountain and its neighboring knobs are some of the only areas in the U.S. that were volcanic islands in the Paleozoic Era seas and were never submerged. The mountains are so old and worn they've been called roots of mountains. At one point they were twice as tall as they are today.
Locations:
Johnson Shut-Ins
Scour Trail
Buford Mountain
Hughes Mountain
Elephant Rocks
Cathedral Canyon
Tiemann Shut Ins
Music:
Where Rainbows Never Die - The Steeldrivers
Coming Down - Tyler Childers
Martin - Zac Brown Band
Ozark Mountain Jubilee - Oak Ridge Boys
This guy Jacob has some amazing photos and videos of the St. Francois Mountains. I want to go to some of these places I’ve never been. His channel has a number of great videos.
Thank you
Never mind. I saw you already went to Marble Creek and Castor Shut-Ins. Try Crane Lake and the shut-ins below the dam.
You’re doing well, young man. Now try Silver Mines, Rockpile Mountain Wilderness, Castor River Shut-Ins, Marble Creek Recreation Area, and (if you can get your hands on a kayak) Little St. Francis River to the St. Francis River to the takeout at Hwy. E. The pinnacles and waterfall on the Little St. Francis are cool. I’m almost 70 years old, and spent most of my life wandering those hills. I built a house right where Lower Rock Creek crosses under Hwy. E, and retired there. You still have a lot to explore. Enjoy it.
Are the pinnacles accessible on foot?
There may be a way to walk upstream along the St Francis River, from the Hwy E bridge, to the Little St Francis, and then upstream along the Little St Francis to the pinnacle/waterfall. There is no trail. It’s probably a couple miles. There is a TH-cam video of a float down the Little St Francis that shows the bluff/pinnacle and the waterfall after a good rain. And if you Google “pinnacle Little St Francis” images, there is an article with a bunch of photos of the area.
My family has around a mile of little st francis access and within a mile of that we have a big bluff with native american paintings on it, video on my channel if anyone wants to see them
I forgot…. Then try Hawn State Park and St. Francis State Park.