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Missouri best-preserved water-powered gristmill, built in 1908 on Huzzah Creek — the red building, blue water, and intact original machinery make it…

An Ozark shut-in where Rocky Creek cascades 40 feet over billion-year-old rhyolite — one of Missouri's best natural swimming holes and an Ozark Trail trailhead.

One of the few natural waterfalls near Kansas City, tucked into a Clay County park between Excelsior Springs and Kearney — small and beautiful and worth…

Missouri's highest point wrapped in 7,448 acres of Ozark wilderness — ancient volcanic rock, a reservoir, and the trail to Mina Sauk Falls.

The highest point in Missouri at 1,772 feet, reached by an easy paved trail through the ancient St. Francois Mountains.

1.5 million acres of north-central Colorado mountains, wilderness areas, and alpine trails — one of the most-visited national forests in the country.

Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado is one of the most striking natural formations in the country — towering sandstone monoliths that…

A 70-foot waterfall in Boulder Canyon just 11 miles from Boulder — a 100-yard walk to something genuinely dramatic tucked into the canyon walls.

A year-round ice field near Idaho Springs, Colorado — a 1.5-mile hike at 11,000 feet where people ski in August and the alpine lake below is impossibly clear.