Ozarks
Spring Creek Gap puts Vichy glades on the Maries County map
Spring Creek Gap Conservation Area gives Maries County an official MDC landscape of dolomite glades, woodland, old fields, and Cedar Creek.
Spring Creek Gap Conservation Area is the kind of place note that makes Maries County feel specific. MDC places it about 10 miles southeast of Vienna and 14 miles north of Rolla on Old Highway 63, with the Vichy Towersite named in the area’s acquisition history.
The area is not just generic Ozark woods. MDC describes forests, woodlands, steep topography, dolomite glades, old fields, and Cedar Creek, with Spring Creek Gap Glades Natural Area expanded in 2007.
For a visitor or local reader, this explains why the Vienna, Vichy, and Old 63 corner of the county has a public-land identity. It is a glade-and-woodland stop, not a state park or a county park.
References
Where this fits: this note belongs to Maries County. See every local note for the county on its page.