Onondaga Cave

On the way home from Big Cedar we stopped for a tour of Onondaga Cave. The big kids have visited before but Agnes has never been and if Edie has been she was too young to remember. Grandma opted out, but thanks to her preferred hotel room temperature we had all packed the hoodies necessary to be comfortable in the cool cave. We love you, Grandma!

Missouri has some very cool caves, but this is one of my favorite to visit because the walking tour is slow enough to really see everything up close, but short enough that the kids don't get bored. This time I think they would have been happy to continue exploring for hours. They were all fascinated and want to go back to Onondaga park to tour Cathedral Cave, which we have never been in because they only have those tours on the weekends.

These are two stalagmites called The Twins.

Agnes wanted pictures of everything, but I culled it down to a few.

Beautiful flow stones.

Beautiful, massive flow stones.

The the Lily Pad room with a ceiling covered in soda straws and a floor covered in pancake stones.

Obligatory cave pic in front of The Queen flow stone.