Rockpile Mountain Wilderness Explained

Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
Iucn Category:Ib
Map:USA
Relief:1
Location:Madison County, Missouri, United States
Nearest City:Fredericktown, MO
Coordinates:37.4253°N -90.4214°W
Established:1980

The Rockpile Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri in Mark Twain National Forest. It takes its name from an ancient circle of granite rock, piled by some earlier man on top of the mountain.[1] The namesake rock pile most likely was an Indian cairn.[2] It is located in Madison County, Missouri, southeast of Bell Mountain and southwest of Fredericktown, Missouri. The area is primarily a broken ridge, having steep rocky slopes running from Little Grass Mountain on the north to the National Forest boundary four miles to the south.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rock Pile Mountain Wilderness . Mark Twain National Forest, U.S. Forest Service. 14 June 2012.
  2. Web site: Madison County Place Names, 1928–1945 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071647/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_madison.html . June 24, 2016 . live . The State Historical Society of Missouri. November 2, 2016.
  3. Web site: Rockplie Mountain Wilderness . Wilderness.net . 14 June 2012.