# Mark Twain State Park

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State park in Missouri, United States

For the New York state park, see [Mark Twain State Park and Soaring Eagles Golf Course](/source/Mark_Twain_State_Park_and_Soaring_Eagles_Golf_Course).

Mark Twain State Park Picnic shelter at Buzzard's Roost Location in Missouri Show map of Missouri Mark Twain State Park (the United States) Show map of the United States Location Monroe County, Missouri, United States Coordinates 39°29′16″N 91°47′35″W / 39.48778°N 91.79306°W / 39.48778; -91.79306[1] Area 2,788.14 acres (1,128.32 ha)[2] Elevation 663 ft (202 m)[1] Established 1924[3] Administrator Missouri Department of Natural Resources Visitors 206,276 (in 2023)[2] Website Official website Mark Twain State Park Picnic Shelter at Buzzard's Roost U.S. National Register of Historic Places Nearest city Santa Fe, Missouri Area Less than one acre Built 1941 (1941) Built by CCC MPS ECW Architecture in Missouri State Parks 1933-1942 TR NRHP reference No. 85000515 Added to NRHP March 4, 1985

**Mark Twain State Park** is a public recreation area encompassing 2,788 acres (1,128 ha) on [Mark Twain Lake](/source/Mark_Twain_Lake) in [Monroe County](/source/Monroe_County%2C_Missouri), [Missouri](/source/Missouri). The [state park](/source/State_park) offers water recreation, hiking trails, and campgrounds.[4] It is adjacent to the [Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site](/source/Mark_Twain_Birthplace_State_Historic_Site).

The **Mark Twain State Park Picnic Shelter at Buzzard's Roost** is a historic [picnic](/source/Picnic) shelter located at Mark Twain State Park. The shelter was built about 1941 by an all African-American [Civilian Conservation Corps](/source/Civilian_Conservation_Corps) company. The shelter is constructed of stone in a rustic style.[5] It was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1985.[6]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-gnis_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-gnis_1-1) ["Lake Tom Sawyer"](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/758354). *[Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System)*. [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey), [United States Department of the Interior](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-parkdata_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-parkdata_2-1) ["Data Sheet: Mark Twain State Park"](https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/Datasheets_MarkTwain.pdf) (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. 2023. Retrieved December 31, 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-acquisition_3-0)** ["State Park Land Acquisition Summary"](https://mostateparks.com/page/59045/state-park-land-acquisition-summary). Missouri State Parks. August 25, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-parks_4-0)** ["Mark Twain State Park"](https://mostateparks.com/park/mark-twain-state-park). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. December 10, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-nrhp_5-0)** Denny, James M.; Wright, Bonita Marie (November 7, 1984). ["Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Architecture in Missouri State Parks, 1933-1942, Thematic Resources"](https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/ECW%20Architecture%20in%20MSP.pdf) (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. Missouri Department of Natural Resources (includes photographs). pp. 317–321. Retrieved December 31, 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-nps_6-0)** ["Mark Twain State Park Picnic Shelter at Buzzard's Roost"](https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/85000515). *NPGallery Digital Asset Management System*. National Park Service. Retrieved December 2, 2017.

## External links

- [Mark Twain State Park](https://mostateparks.com/park/mark-twain-state-park) Missouri Department of Natural Resources

- [Mark Twain State Park Map](https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/4TWA_ColorMap.pdf) Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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v t e Mark Twain Bibliography Novels The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc A Double Barrelled Detective Story A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Hellfire Hotchkiss Short stories "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Cannibalism in the Cars" "A Literary Nightmare" "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" 1601 "The Stolen White Elephant" "Luck" "The Million Pound Bank Note" "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" "Those Extraordinary Twins" "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" "A Dog's Tale" "Extracts from Adam's Diary" "The War Prayer" "Eve's Diary" "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" "My Platonic Sweetheart" "Advice for Good Little Girls" Collections Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Sketches New and Old Mark Twain's Library of Humor Merry Tales The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories Plays Is He Dead? Essays "The Awful German Language" "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" "Advice to Youth" How to Tell a Story and Other Essays "Concerning the Jews" "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" "What Is Man?" "The United States of Lyncherdom" "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Letters from the Earth Nonfiction Territorial Enterprise letters Letters from Hawaii The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi A Tramp Abroad Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator Is Shakespeare Dead? Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography) King Leopold's Soliloquy The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Christian Science Speeches "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" "Votes for Women" Places and events Family cabin Birthplace State Historic Site State Park Boyhood home and museum Mark Twain Cave Mark Twain in Nevada Territorial Enterprise Sagebrush School Quarry Farm Mark Twain House Stormfield Twain–Ament indemnities controversy Popular culture Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Mark Twain Readers Award Mark Twain Tonight! The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Mark Twain (2001 documentary) Twain and Shaw Do Lunch (2011 play) Mark Twain: The Musical Family Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife) Susy Clemens (daughter) Clara Clemens (daughter) Jean Clemens (daughter) John M. Clemens (father) Jane Lampton Clemens (mother) Orion Clemens (brother) Related Jap Herron Center For Mark Twain Studies Mark Twain (book) Mark Twain National Forest Mark Twain Tree National Tom Sawyer Days

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