hike

$float

+other

*not entire trail

^cut short with connector trail

~mix of smaller trails

Osage River; IL

+Pikes Camp Fishing Access 5/6/2026

-Camp

Painted Rock CA; IL

+Bushwhack for herp and amphibian class 5/5/2026

Scrivner Road CA; IL

+Bushwhack for herp and amphibian class & camp 5/4/2026

Giant City SP; IL

Red Cedar Trail 12mi 5/3&5/4/2026

-Camp overnight, strangely big backpacking site

Meramec SP; MO

Wilderness Trail 5.0mi^ 10/13/25

-BP whole trail soon

Wilderness trail 13mi total 4/25&26/2026

-Backpacked and stayed at site 4. Site 6 looks best for when bluebells bloom

+cave survey Wildcat Cave (permitted) 1/21/2026

Natural Wonders Trail 1.3 mi 1/21/2026

-teaching tree ID to kill time

Hamilton Hollow Bushwhack 4.9 mi 2/22/2026

-Accidentally went on the wrong side of the river for Green Cave..

Natural Wonders Trail 1.3 mi 2/22/2026

Bell Mountain Wilderness Area, Mark Twain NF; MO

Bell Mountain Loop from the north 12.2mi 4/10-4/11/2026

Don Robinson SP; MO

South LaBarque Hill 2.8mi 3/29/2026

West Tyson County Park; MO

Flint Quarry and Chubb Trail Loop 3.7mi 3/27/2026

Victoria Glade CA; MO

Loop 2.2 mi 3/14/2026

Loop 2.2 mi 4/28/2026

-hiked on a survey for butterflies n plants

Victoria Glade NP; MO

Loop 1 mi 3/14/2026

Rockwoods Reservation CA; MO

Lime Kiln Loop 3mi 3/8/2026

-Froggies

Pilot Knob State Nature Preserve; KY

Pilot Knob and Sage Point Loop 4.0mi 2/14/2026

Meramec River; MO

$Steelville put-in to Onondaga Cave State Park 12mi 1/10/2026

-bluffs definitely best enjoyed during winter

-nearly 30 bald eagles, some locking talons

Pea Ridge CA; MO

+cave surveys (permitted) 1/9/2026

-about 4 mi bushwhack

Meramec CA; MO

+cave surveys (permitted) 1/7/2026

Big River; MO

$Mammoth River Access to Brown’s Ford Park 11.1mi 12/27/2025

-small cave

-find out more about plumber’s tract w/ glades? 38.15560° N, 90.70058° W

Amidon CA; MO

Cedar Glade Trail .9mi (x2) 12/26/2025

-walking around after basking at the shut ins

Greensfelder County Park; MO

De Clue Deer Run Trail 1.3mi~ 11/28/25

-Tree I.D. walk with Cale

Myron and Sonya Glassberg CA; MO

Glassberg Family CA Trail 2mi* (out and back on loop) 11/26/25

Fults Hill Prairie NP; IL

Fults Hill Loop 1.4mi 11/26/25

-cutleaf grapefern

-ripe persimmons on young trees still

-come back for spring

Englemann Wood NA; MO

Fiddle Creek Loop 1.9mi 11/9/2025

-Return in spring for ephemerals

-NE has glade/cliff community

-celandine poppy

Sally Brown NP; KY

Sally Brown Nature Preserve Loop 4.9mi~ 10/24/2025

-Mature buckeyes, pallisades

Buford Mountain CA; MO

Buford Mountain Loop 9.2mi 10/17/25

Buford Mountain Loop 9.2mi 9/2/24

Great Smoky Mountains NP; TN

Little River Trail 3.3mi* 10/4/25

Hawn SP; MO

Whispering Pines North Loop 5/11/25