Mammoth Missouri Ranch Next Door to Mark Twain National Forest Is Selling for the First Time in a Century

This generational family ranch, 90 minutes from the Ozarks in south-central Missouri, has it all: bluffs, pastures, hardwood timber and hunting, hiking and fishing.

The parcels of the onetime cattle ranch, which abuts the 1.5-million-acre Mark Twain National Forest, were assembled over about a century by the sellers.

Rod Hartzog, a cinematographer whose family owns the ranch, spent many summers there hiking and fishing with his six siblings when he was growing up. He said that some of his brothers learned to drive there.

He and his brothers helped a Maine carpenter gather raw materials for the main lodge, which is on the site of a log cabin on the riverfront that burned down after being struck by lightning.

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