Missouri
Johnson Shut-Ins
83 mi from St. Louis · ~2.4 hr drive
No height recorded
Johnson Shut-Ins is a named waterfall in Missouri — about 83 miles from St. Louis, MO. Full visit details below.
- State
- Missouri
- Nearest city
- St. Louis, MO · 83 mi · ~2.4 hr drive
- Elevation
- 804 ft (245 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.5393°, -90.8380°
From Wikipedia: Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a public recreation area covering 9,432 acres (3,817 ha) on the East Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri. The state park is jointly administered with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two parks cover more than sixteen thousand acres in the St. Francois Mountains region of the Missouri Ozarks. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Johnson Shut-Ins
The exact location is at 37.5393°, -90.8380° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.
Before you go: check current conditions with the appropriate land manager — state parks department, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, or National Park Service unit. Trail access, parking, water levels, and seasonal closures all vary. Several waterfalls in our database are seasonal and may run dry between mid-summer and the next rainy season.
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Stay nearby
Driving in? The nearest documented metro is St. Louis, MO — 83 miles away (~2.4 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Johnson Shut-Ins comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL license) ; the Wikipedia article linked above provides additional history. We do not modify the underlying data — this page presents what's already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.