Mark Twain National Forest
401 Fairgrounds Road
Rolla, MO 65401
(573) 364-4621
Welcome to Mark Twain National Forest
Mark Twain National Forest’s 1.5 million acres through 29 southern and central Missouri counties is known for its rivers and trails.
Established in 1938 through the Weeks Act, which celebrates 100 years in 2011, Mark Twain National Forest continues to offer summer recreation activities as it restores Missouri’s great outdoors.
White-nose syndrome is a fungal disease that has killed more than 1 million bats across the notheast and mid-Atlantic U.S. in the last 4 years and continues unchecked. It has not been found in Arizona or New Mexico. We are working together with many state, federal and private organizations to protect our bats and cave resources. This includes starting decontamination procedures for National Forest lands; and white-nose syndrome surveillance for early detection of the disease.
Four national forests are actively engaged in a collaborative, landscape-scale initiative designed to restore fire-adapted ecosystems in the Southwestern Region. Those forests are the Kaibab, Coconino, Apache-Sitgreaves and Tonto. Together with a diverse group of stakeholders, including members of local, county and state governments, organizations, institutions environmental groups, and industry representatives, the four forest supervisors and Four Forest Restoration Initiative team members are working to collaboratively plan and carry out landscape-scale restoration of ponderosa pine forests in northern Arizona.
Mark Twain National Forest’s 1.5 million acres through 29 southern and central Missouri counties is known for its rivers and trails.
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