Granny’s Acres Conservation Area

This 351-acre area offers good squirrel, turkey and deer hunting in season, and its hardwood forest will be graced with dogwood, gum bumelia, and serviceberry blossoms and returning songbirds.​

Managers are using prescribed fire and other techniques to restore the area’s dolomite glades (a rocky, desertlike type of habitat), maintain the limestone oak/hickory woodland plant community and restore the riparian forest along Whig Creek. These management practices maintain the area’s diverse wildlife habitat and support good populations of turkey, deer and squirrel.​

Birders will appreciate seeing and hearing a variety of songbirds. Other fun-to-watch wildlife includes scorpions, box turtles, five-lined skinks and fence lizards.​

In late spring and summer, see lead plant, goat’s rue, blazing star, purple coneflower, Missouri coneflower, rose verbena, asters and purple milkweed.​

For more information, visit the website.

The area is open to statewide regulations for deer and turkey hunting. A “No Shooting Zone” near the parking lot has been posted to protect the neighboring landowners.