MISSOURI STATE PARKS

Our volunteer museum docents work regularly scheduled shifts to provide interpretation to park guests. Museum docents help to educate our visitors through answering questions, giving museum tours to interested patrons, introducing the site film, and staffing interpretive tables at various locations throughout the park. Museum docent shifts are scheduled in advance and docents can work weekly, bi-weekly, or even once a month! 

Mastodon State Historic Site contains an important archaeological and paleontological site – the Kimmswick Bone Bed. Here, scientists discovered the some of the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and the American mastodon in eastern North America.

Today, visitors can learn about this discovery at the site museum. The museum contains an interpretive video, displays of ancient artifacts and fossils, and an impressive mastodon skeleton replica. Interpretive programs explain more about the significance of the site, archaeological and paleontological sciences, and local ecology.

For anyone wanting to stretch their legs, the site offers three trails, including one that leads to the site where the bones and artifacts were found. The park also offers picnic sites, a picnic shelter, a playground, a special-use area for organized youth organizations, and a wildflower garden that attracts birds and butterflies.