• Hikers and bikers, poets and philosophers, tree huggers and flower children, will all find something to take away from this detailed collection of 80 Missouri nature sites.

• Scenic Missouri is the perfect guide for shutter bugs to locate memorable images to capture on their cell phones or on sophisticated digital cameras. 

• Scenic Missouri features plenty of bluff sites where you can capture the best vistas from Castlewood to Vilander to Devil’s Elbow or Weston bluffs.

• The book covers lakes and wetlands as varied as the ponds of Busch Conservation and Big Lake to Mingo Swamp and Allred Lake Natural Area.

• The book covers Missouri’s many special places from Tower Rock to The Pinnacles, from Hughes Mountain to Big Oak Tree State Park.

• For hikers, trails of various complexity and challenge are detailed, from simple jaunts at Claire Gempp and Blue River, to more formidable walks at Pickle Springs and Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry.

• Scenic Missouri has it all, from roaring rivers and swift flowing streams, to plains and rolling foothills and Ozark Mountains – all packed into one state.