List of National Natural Landmarks in Missouri
From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Missouri. There are 16 in total.
Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Description | |
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1 | Big Oak Tree State Park | May 1986 | East Prairie 36°39′18″N 89°19′42″W / 36.655°N 89.32833°W | Mississippi | A rare untouched wet-mesic bottomland hardwood forest in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, it is the home of several state and national champion trees | |
2 | Carroll Cave | 1977 | Camden | Dontains a dendritic system of subsurface karst streams and tributaries. | ||
3 | Cupola Pond | 1974 | Ripley | One of the most ancient sinkhole ponds in the Ozark plateaus. | ||
4 | Golden Prairie | 1975 | Barton | An essentially virgin tall grass prairie ecosystem. | ||
5 | Grand Gulf State Park | June 1971 | Thayer 36°31′27″N 91°32′38″W / 36.52427°N 91.54389°W | Oregon | An excellent example of karst topography, this canyon is a collapsed dolomite cave with a 200 feet (61 m) natural bridge. Water in this canyon emerges 9 miles (14 km) away in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. | |
6 | Greer Spring | 1980 | Oregon | Spring in the Ozarks that discharges into a high quality, cascading stream. | ||
7 | Maple Woods Natural Area | 1980 | Clay | Contains a nearly virgin sugar maple and mockernut hickory forest. | ||
8 | Maramec Spring | October 1971 | St. James 37°57′19″N 91°32′11″W / 37.95526°N 91.53632°W | Phelps | A natural spring, the fifth largest in the state. It has a notable trout park and a historic iron works in a privately owned park. | |
9 | Mark Twain and Cameron Caves | 1972 | Marion | Exceptionally good examples of the maze type of cavern development. | ||
10 | Marvel Cave | 1972 | Stone | Includes one of the greatest dripstone units of all the Ozark caves. | ||
11 | Onondaga Cave | 1980 | Crawford | Contains an unusually large and varied number of speleothems. | ||
12 | Pickle Springs | 1975 | Ste. Genevieve | Contains one of the finest Pleistocene relict habitats in Missouri. | ||
13 | Taberville Prairie | 1975 | St. Clair | One of the largest remaining virgin tall grass prairies. | ||
14 | Tucker Prairie | 1975 | Callaway | A virgin tall grass prairie occurring within the transition zone between the oak-hickory forest and typical tall grass prairie. | ||
15 | Tumbling Creek Cave | 1980 | Taney | Contains the most diverse fauna known for any cave west of the Mississippi River. | ||
16 | Wegener Woods | 1975 | Warren | An essentially virgin oak-hickory-dominated forest in a condition of gradual change to a sugar maple-dominated forest. | ||