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Elephant Rocks State Park, Belleview, MO

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Elephant Rocks State Park

Clamber among giant pink granite boulders lined up like a train of circus elephants, with a paved Braille Trail looping past them.

7406 Highway 21 · Belleview, MO

About Elephant Rocks State Park

Elephant Rocks State Park protects an outcrop of 1.5-billion-year-old granite in the St. Francois Mountains, where huge rounded boulders stand end to end like a train of circus elephants. A one-mile Braille Trail, the first in Missouri state parks designed for visitors with visual and physical disabilities, winds through the formations. You can also scramble through spots like Fat Man's Squeeze, picnic under the trees and visit the ruins of an old railroad engine house.

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