Hawn State Park formally entered the Missouri State Park system in 1955 and contains a wide diversity of natural resources to explore. The park is available to visitors today because of the vision of one individual. Helen Coffer Hawn was a rural Ste. Genevieve County public school teacher who lived with her mother and brother in a rented cottage. She dreamed of creating a park to protect the landscape for the people and began acquiring tracts of land. Between 1932 and 1941, she successfully purchased 12 separate tracts. Upon her death in 1952, she willed nearly 1,500 acres of rugged hills and streams to the state.

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