Missouri Celebrates 100 Years of State Parks | Missouri State Parks

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Historic photos help tell the story of the first 100 years of Missouri State Parks. One of the most impressive shows the stone castle at Ha Ha Tonka State Park before it was destroyed by fire.

Storm clouds overhead in the dramatic black-and-white photo portend the castle’s future.

Gov. Herbert Hadley had tried to purchase the property in 1911 as Missouri’s first state park. Nearly 70 years passed before it became the state’s sixty-first park in 1978. . . .

The museum exhibit begins with the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, an act that may have encouraged Missouri to develop its own state park system. On April 9, 1917, a state park fund was created to buy land.

One hundred years of parks is an important milestone for the state, Bryan said.

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Missouri Celebrates 100 Years of State Parks | Missouri State Parks

MoBikeFed comment: Our recent Capitol Day & annual Legislators Ride from the Capitol to Katy Trail State Park and back, held on April 10th, 2017, was part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the creation of the Missouri State Park Fund.