Hikers will rejoice in discovering the highest peak in Missouri that's fit with gorgeous state park vistas, camping spots, and hidden hiking trails.

A massive wall of water poured down Proffit Mountain on Dec. 14, 2005, when a 700-foot section of the Taum Sauk dam gave way. Fortunately, the campground below the mountain had no visitors.

The Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Plant, built in 1963, consists of a lake behind a dam on the Black River and the 1.5 billion gallon storage basin atop Proffit Mountain.

At 1,772 feet, Taum Sauk mountain is the tallest place in Missouri. When you're that tall there is little protecting you. Evidence of that lies on the forest floor at ...

LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- The stone retaining wall around a huge mountaintop reservoir in the Ozarks collapsed before daybreak Wednesday, releasing a billion-gallon torrent of water that swept away ...

Church Mountain is in the middle of the Taum Sauk region in southeast Missouri, the largest complex of state owned wildlands, more than 7,000 acres of St. Francois Mountains natural area, and the ...