Turner Cemetery - FS 2367

Trail Overview

Turner Cemetery (FS 2367) is a dirt-gravel-based forest road within the Mark Twain National Forest Potosi Unit. The road branches off Missouri Route 32 heading south, featuring a circular entry around a large tree. From here, it follows the ridge spines between two valleys, hosting Neals Creek to the south and Henderson Creek to the north. The road terrain consists of a natural coarse gravel and dirt mix with occasional natural rock poking out at the surface, mild ruts, and whoops. Despite the name, the road does not end at the Turner Cemetery, which exists to the east, off Ray Barton Road - ICR 74, rather the road goes to a point where it crosses with the Ozark Trail Middle Fork Section (hiking), to the north of Barton Fen Trailhead. The MVUM-sanctioned end is marked with a No Motorized Vehicles marker, where there is enough room to make a 3-point turn and head back the way entered.

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Difficulty

The Turner Cemetery is given a base rating of 2/10, having all the standard expectations of a natural dirt and gravel mixed road, including potholes, washboarding, sections of the track that fade completely to dirt, with high potential to be surface mud in wet conditions, and occasional natural rock poking out at the surface. Several small trees had fallen on the trail when documented in 9/2025, adding small speedbump-sized obstacles to the experience, but are likely to be cleared since. Towards the end of the track, foliage tightens with the road starting to get more consistent rutting in the pathway, with a few small perpendicular mounds likely man-made to channel water off the path to prevent further erosion of the natural path. Difficulty can increase in times of wet and inclement conditions, especially if the active erosion ruts were to grow; the road could also see a drop to a 1/10 rating if mended, with fresh gravel being added from end to end.

History

On the weekend of December 13th, 2025, OnX Offroad supported a local trash clean-up that was hosted by Heartland Trail Trash, a Missouri-based nonprofit stewardship organization. Heartland Trail Trash gathered 45 volunteers, based out of Council Bluff Lake, to participate in Venture Unknown Foundation's 8-state 13-team Sweep Up The Southeast 2025 (SUTS) event. During this event, Heartland Trail Trash (Team Mark Twain) cleaned the majority of the Bixby-East End area, cleaning the area of trash, tires, and metal that had been illegally dumped, as well as other dump sites in Mark Twain along the Missouri Route 32 corridor, going as far east as Shepard Cutoff. The total trash collection included 72 tires, 800 lbs of recycled metal, and 4500 lbs of trash being removed from Mark Twain National Forest and Iron County. A worthy effort considering that the weather turned extremely cold (32degF at noon, dropping to 3degF that night) and at 2 PM started dropping freezing mist, turning to flurries by 6 PM.

Technical Rating

Turner Cemetery - FS 2367 can be accessed by the following ride types:

• High-Clearance 4x4
• SUV
• SxS (60")
• ATV (50")
• Dirt Bike