The campground was destroyed, filled with concrete and rebar from the broken reservoir. This onslaught of water left behind devastation in the form of enormous boulders, several feet of sand and clay and broken and uprooted trees piled up to 15-feet high on the few trees left standing in the 52-site camping area and fen. This valley will become the new home of the campgrounds for Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park, which were destroyed in the breach of the upper Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant Reservoir atop Profitt Mountain on December 14, 2005.Įarly that morning, the park was assaulted with over one billion gallons of water rushing from the broken reservoir atop Profitt Mountain, through the campground and shut-ins and down the East Fork of the Black River. The Goggins Mountain Valley contains the Wild Area as well as the Goggins Mountain Hiking and Equestrian Trail which opened in 2000. The nearby 4,874-acre Goggins Mountain Wild Area was acquired by the parks division of the Department of Natural Resources in 1993, and was designated as Missouri’s largest state wild area in 1995. The barren, rocky areas provide open scenic views and support drought-resistant plants such as Flame Flower, Pineweed, and the Prickly Pear Cactus, as well as animals such as scorpions and the rare eastern collared lizard, or “mountain boomer”. Like the Johnson’s Shut-Ins Natural Area, the wild area is dotted with several glades, the equivalent of a desert in Missouri. The wild area has a wide range of natural habitats, from upland ridges, bluffs and wet meadows, to bottomland woods which boast Oak, Hickory, and Shortleaf Pine, trees durable enough to grow in the thin, rocky soil. Many of the over 900 species of plants that have been discovered in the park are located only in the East Fork Wild Area, including several types of rare plants and the largest Virginia Witch Hazel in the state. There are an abundance of recreational activities in the 1,100-acre East Fork Wild Area in which the major portion of the park’s biological and geological diversity is protected. Some plants, including Missouri’s Evening Primrose, Sandwort, and Englemann’s Adder’s Tongue Fern are found nowhere else in the park. Francois Mountains section of the Ozark Natural Division. Francois Mountains region, the 18-acre Dolomite Glade Natural Area is the only dolomite glade represented from the St.
Seep forests are rare in Missouri and this unique location is dominated by trees such as Red Maple, Green Ash, Honey Locust and Slippery Elm and wetland plants such as Closed Gentian and Silky Willow are found in the fen.Ī relatively rare area in the St.
This wetland community is promoted by seasonally ponded rain water and calcareous ground water seepage on the flat flood plain. Another part, the Johnson’s Shut-Ins Fen Natural Area is a 9-acre combination of seep forest and calcareous fens found in the flood plains of the East Fork Black River. A portion of the park is included in the state’s largest natural area, the 7,028-acre St.
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