My Journal | Mastodon State Historic Site

Pictures I take in Missouri's Mastodon State Historic Site. The trails here have lots of interesting mushrooms, plants, and rock cuts, and the museum has an amazing mastodon skeleton on display.

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2026 August 9

From the Wildflower Trail behind the museum. Despite the heat, the tree cover made the walk surprisingly comfortable.

a stump covered in mushrooms some parchment mushrooms covering a fallen log dried parchment mushrooms turning green in the late summer a rock wall originally part of the quarry site a branch with some berries on it (I believe it's Carolina Buckthorn) parchment mushrooms with very interesting patterning