Northwest Missouri
Grand Trace gives Gentry County a prairie trail story
Grand Trace Conservation Area preserves a northwest Missouri prairie-and-trail story tied to wildlife, seasonal villages, and the old Grand Trace route.
Grand Trace Conservation Area gives Gentry County something more specific than “rural northwest Missouri.” MDC describes a landscape that was once part of a broad prairie country rich with wildlife, with Indian trails crossing the area.
The name matters. MDC says one main trail, the Grand Trace, connected seasonal villages with the St. Louis trading center at the Missouri-Mississippi confluence.
For a local page, that is durable color: farms, roads, and small towns sit on a much older travel landscape.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to Gentry County. See every local note for the county on its page.