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Rockpile Mountain Wilderness

Rockpile Mountain Wilderness

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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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  1. [1]
    "Rock Pile Mountain Wilderness". Mark Twain National Forest, U.S. Forest Service. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Madison County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Rockplie Mountain Wilderness". Wilderness.net. Retrieved 14 June 2012.


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