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Hughes Mountain Natural Area

· A short hike through a billion year-old landscape ·

  • Paul McCaslin
  • Hiking
  • Jan 7, 2020
Blue skies atop Hughes Mountain

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…