Love traveling but want to avoid the big-city crowds? Consider Platte City, Missouri, located just minutes from an international airport.

The six-acre lake at the heart of Wallace State Park doesn’t announce itself with dramatic cliffs or thundering waterfalls. Instead, it sits there with quiet confidence, its surface rippling gently ...

Travelers’ Rest State Park welcomes more than 70,000 visitors each year, including 2,000 school children on field trips.

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Missouri’s covered bridges are more than just charming relics of the past—they’re gateways to history, scenic beauty, and ...

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Research in recent years has identified issues affecting rivers and aquatic life in the Jefferson River Basin, including low ...

See all of the Missouri State baseball players picked in the 2025 MLB Draft, including transfers and signees.

The free, family-friendly concert is part of Missouri State Parks' annual Backyard Concert Series that began this year with a performance from John Williams and Robert Mackey on June 21.

Though Washington State Parks, like other parts of state government, did not make it through this year’s legislative session with its budget unscathed, park visitors shouldn’t notice any ...

Attendance at Missouri State Parks dropped slightly from 2023 to 2024, with 19.8 million visitors last year, according to the department.

What if a city’s mood could be mapped like weather? Researchers at the University of Missouri are using AI to do exactly that—by analyzing geotagged Instagram posts and pairing them with Google Street ...