The Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor is a long string of adjoining conservation areas in the US state of

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

, running along

Interstate 44 Interstate 44 (I-44) is a major Interstate Highway in the central United States. Although it is nominally an east–west road as it is even-numbered, it follows a more southwest–northeast alignment. Its western terminus is in Wichita Fal ...

and along the

Meramec River The Meramec River (), sometimes spelled Maramec River, is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Location" while wandering Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Executive Summary" fr ...

. The corridor is named after Henry Shaw, founder of the

Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million ...

. The Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor Foundation is an organization founded officially in 1994 to preserve the

Ozark The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant porti ...

foothills along Interstate 44 and promote maintenance and expansion of the Ozark Corridor series of parks. Protected areas in the Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor include: * Allenton Access *Antire Valley County Park *Beaumont Scout Reservation *Buder Park *

Castlewood State Park Castlewood State Park is a public recreation area and Missouri state park occupying which straddle the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. The most visited section of the state park lies on the north side of the Meramec; the park acre ...

*Catawissa Conservation Area * Emmenegger Nature Park * Forest 44 Conservation Area *Forest Staley County Park *George Winter Park * Greensfelder County Park *Greentree Park * LaBarque Creek Conservation Area * Lone Elk County Park * Myron and Sonya Glassberg Family Conservation Area * Pacific Palisades Conservation Area *Packwood Park * Possum Woods Conservation Area *Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center *Riverside Park * Robertsville State Park * Rockwoods Range Conservation Area * Rockwoods Reservation * Route 66 State Park *Simpson Park * Shaw Nature Reserve * Tyson Research Center *Unger Park * West Tyson County Park * Young Conservation Area

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(NAAEE).
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