In places like St. Louis, hiking was booming ... Missouri officials met with counterparts from Arkansas, where an Ozark Highlands Trail was already under construction in the state's scenic ...

The Trans-Ozark Trail offers endless opportunities ... stretching from Lake Fort Smith State Park in Arkansas to St. Louis. While it may not match the allure of long-distance hikes like the ...

Subscribe to the St. Louis Outdoors newsletter to get smarter about hiking ... Just to the south, in Arkansas, such a corridor already exists along the Ozark Highlands Trail, which runs inside the ...

Southeast Missouri is a part of the Ozark Highlands which extend into five states. In Missouri, they extend from St. Louis to Arkansas. Mountains, karst features, pristine rivers, underground ...

A male hellbender raised at the St. Louis Zoo has successfully reproduced ... officials announced Thursday. Fewer than 1,000 Ozark hellbenders exist in the world, and the large aquatic salamander ...

Now, the St. Louis Zoo says 800 more of them have been released this summer to their native homes in Ozark rivers. The zoo says that they are meeting their goals to return more of them to the ...