Trail of Tears State Park - Visitor Center — Attraction in Missouri

Very Sparse for a visitor center. There is a trail around the back and they have information pamphlets, patches and lapel pins.

If you're in the area and looking for a good nature center, the nearby Cape Conservation Nature Center has better exhibits.

That said, if trails are your preferred State Park experience, trails abound in this park and a decent trail (1/2 mile loop) starts right out back. Go around the visitor center and past the outdoor...

The narratives and paintings are drawn from diaries of leaders that retell this tragic epic of forced relocation - death march of approximately 16,000 Cherokee, and 16,000 Choctaw Native Americans. Over 3,000 and 5,000 died respectively from colera, starvation, and some froze to death waiting to cross the Miss. river. Nat. Park Service needs to put state rd. numbers on its "Trail...

If you get the chance go the visitor center is awesome alot of good information there the fall colors were pretty good the view of the river overlook was great I plan to go again this summer to try out the fishing at the lake and...