Welcome to Fox Hollow Forest

Home to Nature's Enchanting Solitude

Fox Hollow Forest is a one hundered-plus acre forested rural property located amidst the scenic rolling hills of the Missouri River corridor in southern Boone County, Missouri, west of Ashland.  This peaceful, heavily timbered landscape rests ten minutes from Ashland, five minutes from the Missouri River and the trans-Missouri recreational KatyTrail, and half way between the two central Missouri metropolitan areas of Columbia and Jefferson City, Missouri's state capitol city.  Fox Hollow Forest enjoys rural solitude with convenient access to nearby commerce, medical and cultural regional centers.

For a quick overview, check out this short Fox Hollow Forest VIDEO.

Owned and managed by Fox Hollow Forest LLC, this rural property is utilized by the owners and their guests to seek solitude from everyday urban life.  Besides enjoying rest and relaxation, the owners pursue conservation practices to mitigate the on-going pressures of plant invasion by such non-native exotics as bush honeysuckle, multiflora rose, autumn olive, and Johnson grass as well as aggresive natives including thorny honeylocust and eastern red cedar.

Soon after the purchase of the property in the mid-1990's, the owners concentrated their efforts to clean up the significant junk and debris left behind by the previous property owner. The early 2000's realized a complete renovation of the traditional farmhouse known as The Farmhouse at Fox Hollow.  The revived farmhouse provides a cozy "base camp" for enjoyment by the owners and their guests.

Fox Hollow is blessed with a watershed free of urban impacts.  To view the Fox Hollow Branch in relation to the Bonne Femme Subwatershed, GO HERE.

We are pleased and excited to be the neighbor of the Forest Kindergarten at Blue Fox Farm.  The Forest Kindergarten is a pre-school program introducing youth to the wonders of the natural world in the spirit of: "If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it."

Fox Hollow Forest is located central to a variety of recreational, sightseeing opportunites, lodging, dining and transportation services, including:

• Katy Trail State Park (with access just minutes away at Easley, MO (trail mile marker 162.5, halfway between historic Rocheport MO, (mile marker 178.3), and North Jefferson, MO, (mile marker 143.2). For more, go to BikeKatyTrail.com
• Cooper's Landing Campground, Store and Marina (on the Katy Trail north of Easley, MO - trail mile marker 163.5)
• Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area - (north of Coopers Landing along the Missouri River) to learn about the history of this unique conservation area, visit the video HERE
  
• Hartsburg Grand - Home to the Missouri Organic Association (MOA) (Hartsburg, MO) (on the Katy Trail at trail mile marker 153.6)
• Hart Creek Conservation Area - MDC (Hartsburg, MO)
• Hart Creek Retreat - (Hartsburg, MO) privately owned and operated public campground 
• University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
• Mizzou Botanic Garden (Univerity of Missouri, Columbia, MO)
• Warm Springs Ranch, the rural home of the Budweiser Clydesdales (Booneville, MO)
• National Churchill Museum (Fulton, MO)
• Southern Boone County Public Library (Ashland, MO)
• Missouri State Capitol (Jefferson City, MO
• Missouri State Museum (Jefferson City, MO)
• Runge Nature Center - MDC (Jefferson City, MO)
• Boone County Nature School - Columbia Public Schools (Southern Boone Co, MO) under construction 2021
• Schnabel Woods - MDC Natural Area (McBaine, MO)
• Columbia Regional Airport (conveniently located between Fox Hollow Forest and Columbia, 20 minutes driving time)
• Amtrak/Jefferson City Station (a 20 minute drive with service to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and other cities along the way)
• TownPlace Suites by Marriott - closest hotel to Fox Hollow Forest  (south Columbia, MO)

Fox Hollow Forest is a proud member of the Southern Boone County Chamber of Commerce.

Fox Hollow Branch at the low water crossing entrance to Fox Hollow Forest. May 2020

Fox Hollow Forest - That was then . . . This is NOW!

An illustrated history - 1994 to present.

Rural Land Stewardship Field Day

Program Description