Tour of Lone Elk Park, St. Louis, MO
It was one of the few hot and muggy summer days in Missouri up to that point, but we had planned to hike on July 4th weekend, and hike we did! We did not hike at Lone Elk Park , however. My group of friends and I decided to drive through Lone Elk Park to admire the wildlife and then later picnic and hike at Emmenneger Nature Park , on our way home. While we listened to a friend's newly released CD in the comfort of the air conditioned Honda, we drove along the winding roads admiring trees and keeping an eye out for wildlife. It turned out we didn't need to look too hard. As we crested a small hill, there not fifty feet down from us in the middle of the road, was a herd of Elk and one lone deer. One of these things is not like the others. Yeah, it's you, deer. Too tickled to stay in the car, we stopped the car at a safe distance and piled out to watch the herd. Elk babies make adorable noises, I learned, and are spotted like baby deer, probably for camouflage as wel...