Cuivre River State Park Trails

Cuivre River State Park Trails

In Cuivre River State Park’s 6,394 acres of rugged, Ozark-like terrain, you can explore 38 miles of trail with loop hikes ranging from 1 to 8 miles in length. Along the way you’ll see clear streams, springs, bluff overlooks, glades, and patches of tall-grass prairie. Cuivre River State Park’s landscape is a wooded island in the rolling farm country of northeastern Missouri. Part of the Lincoln Hills, an area that escaped heavy glaciation, Cuivre River’s 6,394 acres feature the ridges, hollows, gravelly streams, and bluff overlooks common to the southern part of the state. Many plants and animals living here are found nowhere else in northern Missouri. The park includes the 1,165-acre Big Sugar Creek Wild Area, the 1,102-acre North Woods Wild Area, and the 1,782-acre Lincoln Hills Natural Area. On Cuivre River’s trails you’ll explore a wide variety of habitat. The Prairie and Blazing Star trails go through tall-grass prairie and savanna. The Big Sugar Creek, Cuivre River, Lone Spring, and Frenchman’s Bluff trails wander through deep hollows and forests, cross small creeks, and climb to spectacular bluff overlooks. There’s even a 4-mile shoreline hike around Lincoln Lake on the Lakeside Trail. Scenery: Forested hills and hollows, serpentine creeks, prairies, bluff overlooks on the Cuivre River.

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