Colorado has the Colorado Trail, Arizona has the Arizona Trail, and Missouri has the Ozark Trail. All three are scenic long trails passing primarily through public lands and maintained cooperatively ...

This past week, I got to do a lot of hiking in Missouri. The highlight of my week came on the day I got to hike a section of the Ozark trail. The trail has over 430 miles divided into sections. Most ...

Work is progressing on a 1,000-mile Trans-Ozark trail that one day could extend from St. Louis to Fort Smith, Ark. Last week, the National Park Service released its environmental assessment for public ...

The sweet, sharp scent catches me by surprise. More than an hour into my first hike on a section of Missouri's Ozark Trail, dry leaves and barren brown hard woods suddenly yield to an oasis of green ...