Opened to the public on May 31, 1931, the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri was the largest man-made lake in the world. Stretching 92 miles end to end, the lake's 1,150 miles of shoreline are lined by flowering dogwood, Missouri’s state flower. Six of the 17 dogwood species in North America grow naturally in the “Show Me State."
Lake of the Ozarks (courtesy, Missouri Division of Tourism)
