Elephant's Information

Made from a quarry into a state park, it is a really cool place to experience and have some fun. Giant boulders of one and a half billion year old granite stand end to end like a train of circus elephants. Many of the elephant rocks in this natural area lie within the seven acre park. You can view most of the park from the quarry to the elephants itself from the mile long Braille Trail. The Braille Trail is the first of its kind in the Missouri state parks designed for people with visual and physical dissabilities. There is no certern count on how many elephants are in the park considering many of them continue to erode exposing new ones below. Dumbo, the biggest elephant of them all, is twenty seven feet tall, thirty five feet long, seventeen feet wide, and weighing in at six hundred eighty tons. Thirty picnic table sites are amoung the park so you can picnic and explore afterwards. Pets are allowed only on leashes. Rock climbing equiptment is not to be used in the park.

My take on the park is it is worth seeing. I would go during the late fall and winter months. The rest of the year it is just full of tourists from St. Louis and surrounding areas. By looking at my pics, you would think the rocks are small but they are huge with giant cracks between each rock. Also some are steep so be carefull. You could spend an entire day there just climbing the rocks and going between them or underneath. Its something you just have to see for yourself if you are in the area. Its worth the stop.

Misc. Pictures of the Herd
- Various pictures of Elephant Rocks State Park taken in the summer of 2004.





Elephant Rocks
- Numerous pictures of elephant rocks taken in the winter of 2006.

Sources

Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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Elephant Rocks Trails

- Braille Trail ( 1 Mile) - Takes you around the park with Braille signs for the blind to read. The whole trail is paved and easily walkable.

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I have come here twice during the year of 2006, it is a very beutifull park that I highly reconmend going to.

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