Kid Friendly Elephant Rocks State Park in Missouri
If you’re looking for a kid-friendly and ADA accessible Missouri State Park to spend the day in, look no further than Elephant Rocks State Park. This wheelchair accessible MO state park offers lots of outdoor family activities from the picnic and playground areas to the giant elephant rocks to crawl around on and squeeze through. Elephant Rocks State Park is a perfect day trip in one of the most popular state parks in Missouri.
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Elephant Rocks State Park
Type: Loop | Rate: Easy | Traffic: Heavy | Length: 1mi | Elevation Gain: 91ft
The Braille Trail is a 1 mile paved loop trail around the Elephant Rocks that is wheelchair accessible.
Kid Friendly Missouri State Parks
Elephant Rocks State Park was one of the first Missouri State Parks people recommended to me when I started hiking in Missouri. I can absolutely see why! I wouldn’t necessarily classify the Braille Trail as a hike, but the whole park is a wonderful place to spend the day with the family. Just be sure to arrive early! Elephant Rocks opens at 8am. I was the first person in on a Wednesday morning, but it filled up quickly.
What are the Elephant Rocks?
Located in the St. Francois Mountains in southeast Missouri the Elephant Rocks are boulders of Graniteville Granite which were formed by volcanoes 1.4 billion years ago in the Proterozoic era. Millions of years of erosion exposed and shaped the reddish pink boulders into the configuration they are in today which resembles a line of circus elephants. The granite in the area has be quarried since 1869 with stones being used in buildings in St. Louis and as far away as Massachusetts and California. It’s kind of cool (and kind of sad) to see names of the workers chiseled into the stone from 100 years ago.
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More Kid Friendly Missouri Hiking Trails
Horseshoe Glade Trail at Johnson’s Shut-Ins
Queeny Park in Saint Louis
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