Let me burst the bubble early. There are no monkeys, and while I may not be a professional geographer or cartographer, but I highly suspect anything here qualifies as a mountain. Yes, it IS a...

This area was called "Monkey Mountains," because early settlers deemed the river bluffs too steep for even monkeys to climb. This place is as close to being out in the wild as you can get in the...

Monkey Mountain is an 855 acre nature preserve in Eastern Jackson County, halfway in-between Grain Valley and Oak Grove. The address I listed is the approximate address of the south entrance to...

This is definately not one of those paved city trails to take a nice stroll on. The paths are difficult to find. Lots of mud and parts torn up from horses. Doubled up on the bug bracelets which...

Trails are plentiful in this crazy and interesting terrain... spilling off a hill into Grain Valley and farmland. Lots of tree types... and more thorny Black Locust trees than I have seen in one...