Eleven Point State Park

About this park

Eleven Point State Park, among four new Missouri state parks announced in 2016, protects more than 4,100 acres along six miles of frontage on the Eleven Point River, one of the original rivers designated under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Much of the park's land came from the historic Pigman Ranch, a property with its own colorful history, having reportedly hosted a visit from the Beatles during their time in Missouri in the 1960s. The park's holdings include more than 3,000 acres of native woodlands and forest, 14 tributary streams and several springs, and nearly 1,000 acres of open uplands and pasture, giving it a genuinely diverse mix of Ozark habitat types within a single park boundary. A federally designated scenic easement running along the river itself, part of the Wild and Scenic River protections established decades before the state park existed, has generated ongoing debate over how public access and the park's development plans intersect with those older federal restrictions. As one of Missouri's newest state parks, Eleven Point remains in a genuinely unsettled stage of development, with the Department of Natural Resources continuing to gather public input on a conceptual development plan for the site. The park is currently closed to general public access while these planning questions work through, making it, for now, a park defined as much by its ongoing policy discussions as by any developed visitor amenities.