Overnight Trip To Indian Cave State Park

Headed up to Indian Cave State Park for the 24th and 25th. This was really the last weekend of the spring to go backpacking. It was a beautiful trip. The red bud trees were in bloom and speckled the landscape with pink.

For this trip I started at trail head 8 and hiked up trail 8A to trail head 3, then down trail 8 (Rock Bluff Run) back to trail head 8. I then restocked my water at the car (since there aren't any reliable water sources and I'm not refilling in the Missouri).

After restocking my water supply a headed south toward the trial leading to the Indian Cave. However, at the southern point were 11, 10 and Hardwood Trail meet I saw a nice meadow open up to the right. You can see this in the pictures above. It was lined with Red Bud Trees and looked cool so I camped along the edge of that for the night.