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This a quick and easy trail that is slightly rugged in a few places.


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Map Key

0.4

Miles

0.7

KM

85%

Runnable

519' 158 m

High

415' 127 m

Low

56' 17 m

Up

103' 32 m

Down

7%

Avg Grade (4°)

17%

Max Grade (9°)

Dogs Leashed

Features Geological Significance

Many wooden stairs

Runner Notes

You may experience:
2) Natural Surface-dirt/mud/gravel, shifting rock, slippery
surface, etc.
3) Rocks, roots and/or downed vegetation on trail
6) Wood or stone steps
9) Bridges and/or structural crossings

Description

Mastodon State Historic Site
WILDFLOWER TRAIL

Wildflower Trail guides visitors down a series of stairs to Kimmswick Bone
Bed where scientists first discovered evidence that American mastodons
coexisted with humans 12,000 years ago. The trail passes Callison
Memorial Bird Sanctuary, which is a wildflower area, before crossing an
old limestone quarry and going down a limestone bluff and talus slope to
the bone bed.

At the bone bed, an interpretive kiosk provides information about the
Pleistocene deposits. At the end of the ice age, this area's mineral springs
and swampland were home to the American mastodon, Harlan's ground
sloth, Jefferson's ground sloth, long-nosed peccary and stag moose. No
excavations are going on currently and the remnants of the bone bed site
remain safely buried for future generations.

Past the bone bed, the trail continues to a small foot bridge over a spring
that actively flows after heavy rain. After traveling uphill through a dense
oak woodland to the limestone bluff, the loop leads visitors back to the
museum or to Callison Memorial Bird Sanctuary.

Contacts

Shared By:

Joseph Higgs

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Trail Rankings

#472

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#26,474

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Photos

Quarry face
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO
Tree roots on trail
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO
Stairs at the Kimmswick Bone Bed
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO
Three-way water fountain.
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO
Quarry information
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO
Wildflower Trailhead
Jul 1, 2022 near Imperial, MO

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