Hughes Mountain Natural Area
· A short hike through a billion year-old landscape ·
Somehow even with all the time spent exploring the area, I had never visited Hughes Mountain Natural Area near Caledonia, MO. The 462 acre area is covered mainly in oak/hickory forests with a few glade areas at the summit. Sounds pretty typical, right? Far from it. These rhyolite glades formed from lava 1.5 billion years…
