Glade Top Trail
Glade Top Trail is a National Forest Scenic Byway in Missouri. Within Missouri it covers roughly 35 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Glade Top Trail with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Glade Top Trail is Missouri's only National Forest Scenic Byway, a gravel ridgetop route through the Mark Twain National Forest in the southern Ozarks. It runs along narrow ridges past open "glades" — rocky, prairie-like balds — with long views over the surrounding hills. Flowering dogwood in spring and smoke tree and hardwoods in fall make it a seasonal showpiece.
- Ozark ridgetop drive
- open glade balds
- Mark Twain National Forest
- dogwood & smoke tree
- long hill views
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What is a National Forest Scenic Byway?
National Forest Scenic Byways are routes designated by the U.S. Forest Service that thread through the mountains, canyons and old growth of America's national forests and grasslands.