Rockwoods Reservation
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates
Template:Infobox protected area
Rockwoods Reservation is a Template:Convert state forest and wildlife conservation area in St. Louis County, Missouri. It was established in 1938, making it one of the oldest conservation areas established by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Rockwoods is significant for its close location in a rapidly developing suburban area and close to a major urban area. It supports a diverse array of native plant and animal life, contains geologically-interesting rock formations, and ecologically-important springs and caves. Rockwoods Reservation is not a pristine wilderness untouched by human hands, however; remnants of extensive former limestone, clay and gravel quarrying operations are hidden in the dense second growth hardwood forest. Most of the original forest was clearcut to feed lime kilns.
Rockwoods Reservation adjoins St. Louis County's Template:Convert Greensfelder County Park to the south, which itself abuts the state's Template:Convert Rockwoods Range Conservation Area. Together, these three parcels constitute a contiguous green belt of almost Template:Convert. The Template:Convert Greenrock Trail is a hiking trail that crosses all three areas with one terminus in Rockwoods Reservation.
There are six trails in Rockwoods Reservation:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Wildlife Habitat Discovery Trail Template:Convert
- Rock Quarry Trail - Template:Convert
- Trail Among the Trees - Template:Convert
- Lime Kiln Trail - Template:Convert
- Green Rock Trail - Template:Convert of the trail's Template:Convert
- Turkey Ridge Trail - Template:Convert
-
Rockwoods Reservation map
-
Rockwoods Cave entrance
-
Green Rock Trail
