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With acres of state parks offering sandy beaches and opportunities for swimming, fishing, boating and camping -- you can't beat the summer fun to be found in the Show Me State.

Check it all out here, including information on the state's biggest outdoor summer attractions (at - where else? - Lake of the Ozarks) as well as Missouri's largest stretch of beach (at Wakonda Lake). Have fun!

Guide to Recreation and Services in Missouri State Parks - Actvities at a glance in a coded chart to trails, camping, facilities and water activities including pools and beach swimming areas, maps and pictures.

Lake of the Ozarks Vacation Guide - At 17,441-acres, one of Missouri's largest lakes and boasting two sandy swimming beaches with additional info on camping, fishing and picnicking, area willdlife, dining, lodging, photo gallery, maps & directions.

Finger Lakes State Parks - Once the site of a coal strip-mining operation, and now a man-made landscape for off-road recreational vehicle trails and picnicking; with more than a mile of lake front with info on beach hours, opening and closing dates.

Wakonda State Park - One of the state's largest sand beaches at 20,000-square-feet, with info on opening and closing dates, beach hours, amenities, pictures, maps, driving directions.

Thousand Hills State Park - With information on swimming, fishing, boating and water skiing on Forest Lake with hours, amenities, fee rates.

Long Branch State Park - Great bass fishing, with a marina and fishing pier and info on the sand beach offering a volleyball net, changinghouse facility.

Pomme de Terre State Park - Located on the Hermitage and Pittsburg sides of Pomme de Terre Lake with two public swimming beaches, marina, fishing pier, camp sites.

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