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I visited this cave a few times growing up. The neatest thing about the cave is after the section where you can squeeze through (if dressed appropriately and yo
by NDizzle 9y ago
I visited this cave a few times growing up. The neatest thing about the cave is after the section where you can squeeze through (if dressed appropriately and you want to) a tiny opening, in the large cavern beyond there is a tree stump in the middle of the room. I don't know who moved it there or how they moved it there, but it always was amazing to me as a child. See the pictures of the people covered in red clay to get an idea of how tiny the opening is.
I grew up about 40 miles away from this cave.
- sdenton4 9y agoI grew up in Missouri; my dad was amember of the Missouri Speleological Society, and we spent a lot of weekends wandering into unlit holes in the earth. Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee are built on limestone and have a lot of subterranean water moving around - meaning there are a lot of caves. Like, a kind of stupid number of caves. When I was a kid, Missouri had more caves than any other state, but it lost the title to Tennessee at some point, as more and more caves were found to be connected to one another. And a few of these caves have been commercialized for a very long time, like the one in the posting. The caves are a pretty magical feature of an otherwise (IMO) pretty bland part of the country.
- jjeaff 9y agoBland? The Ozark region in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri is absolutely gorgeous with rolling Green hills in the summer and beautiful foliage in the fall. Not to mention the unique dialects and culture that was cultivated in somewhat of a vacuum for a few hundred years due to the relatively difficult terrain that kept accessibility low. Go farther north or west, and yes, I agree the views get pretty repetitive.