Bucket List: Hiking Missouri's Ozark Trail | Cowboys & Indians Magazine

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I had plotted and planned and schemed and dreamed about this Ozark Trail hike for months, and Cody blew up my itinerary in an instant, in a good way. He told us of a dazzling new mountain lake fishing spot like those that dot Rocky Mountain National Park. The lake is not on most maps, so I didn’t know about it, and neither does almost anybody else.

“It’s a beautiful little spot,” Cody said. “Undeveloped. It’s a hidden gem.”

My to-do list was already full of beautiful little spots and hidden gems that make the OT a bucket-list destination—Missouri’s tallest mountain (Taum Sauk) and highest waterfall (Mina Sauk) among them. I added the Brand-New Mountain Lake Fishing Spot (a six-mile roundtrip) to the list.

Covering 430 miles across Missouri, the OT sits 80 miles west of the Mississippi River. The west’s first great trail, it slices through the St. Francois Mountains, which are among the oldest on earth. Formed by volcanic eruptions 1.4 billion years ago, they are 17.5 times older than the Rockies.

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