Cave Spring near BIG SPRING Van Buren, Missouri | Current River and Ozark National Scenic Riverways
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Missouri Springs are some of the best in the United States. The Ozarks are home to Big Spring, Alley Spring, Blue Spring, Greer Spring, and many other beautiful natural springs. Missouri is, also known as the cave state and is home to numerous caves. When the two come together like Cave Spring located to the west of Hunter, Missouri and south of Van Buren, Missouri near the banks of the popular floating and canoeing river called Current River.
This area is part of the National Park Service and is near the Mark Twain National Forest, which is home to most of the beautiful natural areas and wilderness of the Missouri Ozarks.
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Hunters Cave is another name for some locals! Amazing place, People really don’t understand the beauty the Ozarks are hiding
That sounds like a better name, cave spring is pretty common. Couldn’t agree more on the hidden beauty of the Missouri Ozarks👍
The voices of past generations.
Current river is a great river to float
It absolutely is
I was excited to stumble onto this video as I was just talking with my mother about taking her to visit there again soon. I can provide some history on this cave and the dam built there. My mother lived on that land with her family in the decades prior to WW2. If you walk up to the top of that hill on the north side, that's where my grandfather built the Conner family home. He and his brother farmed that land on the Current River branch nearby. Eugene Conner and my grandmother Nellie raised 14 children there; my mother and one of her sisters are still living in West Plains, MO west of that area now. Her older brothers built that dam and power station (I don't know the correct terminology for that) to pump water up the hill to the house. The family relocated from there in the mid 1940's. The concrete dam that is left at the mouth of the cave isn't really visually appealing, I get that. But, it's definitely a neat perspective to think about someone owning this land and making it work for their needs at that time, in such a remote area of Missouri. I'm really excited to share this with my now 94 year old mother, she'll really appreciate this video! Love it, thank you!
Awesome job. Thank you for posting this video. I have lived about 5 miles from here my whole life. Due to my disability I have never gotten to see it like this.
My great pleasure! I at times wonder how locals take my videos, but your comment is encouraging - Thank You
Just curious, what general area is this? I know the other Cave Spring and am familiar with just about all the Missouri Ozarks has to offer but I've never heard of this one before. Just a general vicinity would be great, I can figure it out from there. I'm trying to show my dad all of the places I found when I was younger before it's too late and would definitely like to add this to the list. Thanks for any information you'd care to share. ✌️
That was absolutely amazing
Thank you 👍
Gary, there's another spring like this at Blue Spring on the Jacks Fork, near Mountain View, MO. You oughta go and add it to your collection. The campground and primary river access is on the south side of the river, with the cave on the north side. There are several small cave openings in the bluff, but the cave with the Blue Spring inside is unmistaken. Thank you for another video. I haven't been to this one yet.
Thanks for the info! Sounds like a great trip for this fall when the high season burns off. 😀
Thanks Gary! Very unique and special place.
Indeed it is and Thanks 👍
I live on Van Buren Street in Marion, I'm all about the freshwater springs with underwater caves.
Nice, I love the springs also and the he next month or so I hope to release a lot of Missouri springs videos 👍
Incredible video Gary, high five buddy!
Thanks, it’s a beautiful area!
Appears to be a First Magnutude spring.
Enjoyed your video's of the Ozark Riverways. I had a question regarding the other Cave Spring along the Current River which is fed by Devil's Well underground lake. When we floated into the cave this summer it was hard to tell what the water depth was in the rear cavern was due to the lack of light. But I read a few articles that the depth is 140ft. Do you know if that is accurate?
Thank you! Here is a link to the Spring of Missouri pdf that does an in-depth discussion on cave spring starting at the bottom of page 73
(copy and paste into your web browser)
share.mo.gov/nr/mgs/MGSData/Books/Water%20Resources/Springs%20of%20Missouri/WR29revised.pdf
It's a little dated, but it indicates it's a 155 ft deep at this point. Fascinating spring system. The book has diagrams on the makeup of the spring and gives a lot of detail on Devils Well.
Thanks for watching.
@@MarksofCuriosity Very interesting. Thank you so much. My friend is a diver, so we were curious as the depth and what explorations had been done.
Can you post a address to get to or link. Appreciate it
If you copy and paste the following coordinates into Google maps it will help locate it for you -
(36.8958862, -90.8962358)