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Knob Noster State Park Recreational Demonstration Area Storygraph
The National Park Service's Recreational Demonstration Area storygraph was completed in the 1930s and offers an idyllic view of what an organized group camp or demonstration area might have looked like.
While the foreground in this drawing…
Knob Noster State Park Camp Bobwhite Historic and New Pool
Camp Bobwhite has offered a swimming pool since the camp opened to the public in the 1940s. Long before the use of air conditioning, swimming pools offered a fun place to cool off during the summer months and campers looked forward to pool time.…
Knob Noster State Park WPA Bridge on Entrance Road
The National Park Service placed the Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Bridge, or Knob Noster State Park Bridge on Entrance Road, in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The Works Progress Administration and the National Park…
Knob Noster State Park Camp Shawnee
The National Park Service added the Shawnee Organized Group Camp to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1985. The Works Progress Administration constructed the camp as part an effort to create recreational…
Knob Noster State Park Camp Bobwhite Director's Cabin
The Works Progress Administration constructed the original Camp Bobwhite Director's Cabin in the late 1930s. Its exterior has changed little over the past several decades. As you can see from the earliest image, the park's road ended at a…
Knob Noster State Park Camp Activities
One of the primary objectives of the creation of the Monteserrat Recreational Demonstration area that later became Knob Noster State Park in 1946 was to get individuals to engage with recreation and the outdoors.
The campers who stayed at either…
Knob Noster State Park Camp Shawnee Cabins
A number of religious and civic organizations utilized the campgrounds since the opening of the park. When the park opened in the 1930s as part of the Montserrat Demonstration Area, the Camp that became Camp Shawnee was originally named Camp…