Elephant Rocks State Park

Elephant Rocks State Park is just one of the Parks in Missouri. It is located in the Northeastern part of Missouri, near a little town called Graniteville. Elephant Rocks State Park is a very interesting place. Elephant Rocks State Park was founded back in 1869. There are not really elephants if you are wondering there are just giant boulders in the shape of elephants. These giant boulders are 1.5 billion-year-old granite. This Granite stands end to end and it appears to be a train of circus elephants. Elephant Rocks State Park got its name because of these rather large boulders. The park is consisted of 129 acres. The herd of elephants came to be about 1.5 billion years ago, it all began during the Precambrian era. Magma a form of molten rock accumulated from below. While the magma cooled it formed red granite rocks. Slowly over the years as the weight of the rock was slowly removed by erosion, vertical and horizontal developed. This then fractured ...