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Afternoon Adventure to Elephant Rocks State Park located off Hwy 21 in South Central Missouri near the town of Middle Brook, MO.
The formation of these extraordinary geologic features began during the Precambrian era about 1.5 billion years ago. Molten rock, called magma, accumulated deep below the earth’s surface. The magma slowly cooled, forming red granite rock. As the weight of the overlying rock was removed by erosion, horizontal and vertical cracks developed, fracturing the massive granite into huge, angular blocks. Water permeated down through the fractures, disintegrated the adjacent granite and rounded the edges and corners of the blocks while still underground. This action formed giant rounded masses called core stones. Erosion eventually removed the disintegrated material from around the fractures, and exposed the giant core stone boulders at the earth’s surface.
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all right guys pulling into elephant
rock state park
it closes at five
we have uh
quite a bit of time to explore
you can see as soon as you come into
those big rocks on the top
those aren't even the big giants but
those are huge boulders everything
you're going to see in here is going to
be granite
i'm going to give you a sneak peek yeah
so we're fixing to take you through here
let me get a situated and we'll see you
shortly
it's pretty it's pretty fun yeah y'all
want to be on youtube right quick i got
a channel it's called a ozark hippie
camp you want to be on it
right these two kids man they just come
off the skateboards over here at
elephant rocks what do y'all think of
these big rocks guys well they're all so
great you can really get some steak
drops on them yeah and uh what do you
think of the energy coming off of them
pretty pretty intense pretty it's pretty
intense yeah
that's fine the granite rock man it
definitely brings a lot of energy yeah
you can see these kids uh let me stay
right there right quick i'm gonna get
you right there's a cool picture of them
and uh we're gonna probably post this on
thursday wednesday thursday next week
all right and i got some other kids from
uh
three girls from uh johnson shut-ins
they were just over there hiking kind of
doing what y'all are doing so just enjoy
your day guys and appreciate your time
thank you ozark hippie camp ozark hippie
yeah later guys yeah on youtube yeah all
right peace
later
they're full of good energy
a lot of uh places to use the restroom
here guys
even place to grab a drink
we're just gonna walk up here to this
front area
they do have a braille trail anybody
interested it's uh
helpful
yeah
so we're gonna walk to where those kids
are
you can kind of see how big these rocks
really are through here guys
and there are granite quarries
everywhere
so we're just kind of
gonna go look over here and kind of take
a look and then we're gonna show you
some big rock i walked on these other
rock but
the giant rock
is
is right where we pulled in so
you'll see some really cool stuff
again i encourage each other to come out
here
and explore
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you never know what trail we're gonna be
on
so we encourage you guys to get out
there on the trail and
just enjoy nature nature's all around
again
uh these were like 14 miles apart
johnson shut-ins
along with elephant rock i met the two
guys that were camping where were they
camping at uh
tom sock mountain tom sock mountain so
that's a good spot to
to camp while you're here at these two
locations hippie camp is about
uh hour 45 from here
but that's still in your backyard let me
catch a little pan
yeah
and then we're gonna go to the right
guys
you can see these are just huge granite
rocks called elephant rocks
and we're wishing uh
bones and miscarried and we're wishing
them so much
strength power and love to recover from
that
darndel covid man this is the
darndest thing so
we just pray that uh these
this energy man there's a spirit rock
bones get that energy from that spirit
rot and get healed boy
but we do love both of them dearly
pulling from them see how big the rock
is here to your
that's just enormous size
uh that you can just walk on top of
get a feel of it
i'm on a
the elephant rock looks like a cave but
it's more of a shelter
a little shelter say we're going to go
on that ridge over there
let me come in here
over here
it's huge
you can go in any cave you want
you know that
got the hippie chicks here with me today
it's from the hippie camp
that's awesome
she don't like to be on the video that
often but sometimes you just gotta
nice
so we're gonna cut right back over here
here in a second
i'm just showing you more of these rocks
again a nice nice path here
anybody can come out here and enjoy and
experience the power of these
these rocks
that was funny to see the two boys on
the skateboard come down
so we're gonna cut off to the right
no that's so cool for the bro
nice
so helpful
all right here's a trail
i'd recommend the winter hiking again
guys
uh early spring early early spring
winter
fall
uh
late fall
just the snakes aren't here so it's
just a little more pleasant on on
just being out in nature so you have to
worry about the ticks for
none of the mosquitoes
you just get to see through the trees
too there's not a lot of
foliage karen you know just just
blocking the views
you get to see everything right first
just right here right in front of you
i made it to my living room
one day i'm gonna have a mossy living
room somewhere
so good on my feet feels so nice
all right come out of the living room
going to go up this trail here guys
welcome to the rocks elephant rocks
2022 guys time is just flying
kids are getting older
and babies are getting bigger
let's feel this big rock here guys
look at the size of this thing
just come through here
this is all one rock
all right you see
the size
wow
this is one rock
perfect energy
oh wow
look at the next big rocker fixing to go
on top up
these are huge kind of builders look
over there too
this is off of highway 21 here in
missouri
it's a must must see
put it on your maps guys this is a
must-stop place
just one of these places man even
walking on this rock you feel that
energy
it's just uh
just restores man it's like a power
charge it's so nice
so nice
back on my carpet
hey watch out for that mud this muddy
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okay that was one where oh my
this one goes forever
yeah watch this
from here
this is this is elephant rock to me
wouldn't you say yes this thing is huge
guys and no one really gets to see
unless you walk over here
on to the right of the trail everybody
kind of skips it because they want to go
to the back and look at the building
but if you want to get a feel of this
place
this rock is one of them this would
be the elephant for sure
it does have a cedar grown in the middle
of it let me show you how far this thing
goes so this keeps going and keeps going
guys
and then we'll end up over there in a
moment
but let's just follow this thing out
right quick
what a rock
shawl granite guys
cow
i just think they have deposits around
here because our quarries where they
mine all this stuff
the state lets us come get the natural
energy from it thank you state of
missouri
man these guys are doing a great job
here with this park
you can see where we all park down there
not too far away
this is still all that one same rock can
you believe
i don't know if it's gonna end guys but
i think
we're gonna let this drift out you can
kind of see the end point over there
let's go right over here right quick
though
just so we don't miss anything
this way right through here
there's a special spot even over here
that's just we'll probably catch that
rock on the way back but i don't want to
miss this
little spot right over here
let's see i think this is it
oh yeah
you can see this is a nice rock
uh it sounds like there's a house kind
of close to this park but some dogs are
going crazy i don't know what those are
from but
people can tell your dogs
you need some help
thank you yeah watch you have my
ah muddy
all right
more rocks guys
more rocks
i see where we're going
yeah
looky here
there's a lake down there
like i said there's a highway stuff a
highway 21 so
you will hear some highway noise
it is day use only there's that what i
was looking for there's that pond
wow
elephant rocks
you can see why it's called elephant
rock so guys we took you by some
enormous size rocks
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