Caves in the Springfield-Jasper area?

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Caves in the Springfield-Jasper area?

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Hello everyone!

I am a climber who has just begun caving recently. My girlfriend got me into caving. However, we are running out of caves to explore and were looking at Whippoorwill in Arkansas or some of the Busiek caves. Anyone have any information they would be willing to share on those or any others?

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hey welcome to the forum!! have you tried ash grove?
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I think maybe Sequiota does tours, if not you could always "accidentally" wander in
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theotherguy wrote:I think maybe Sequiota does tours, if not you could always "accidentally" wander in
Doling is the one that does tours.
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JAKACHAN wrote:Hello everyone!

I am a climber who has just begun caving recently. My girlfriend got me into caving. However, we are running out of caves to explore and were looking at Whippoorwill in Arkansas or some of the Busiek caves. Anyone have any information they would be willing to share on those or any others?

Thanks!
Besides searching threads here, you might consider joining a caving grotto, such as this one.
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sequiota also used to do public tours during certain times of the year. the parks board probably can offer better info.
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urbannatural wrote:hey welcome to the forum!! have you tried ash grove?
Thank you for the welcome! We actually just checked out Ash Grove this past Sunday, the Entrance by the Water Treatment plant was flooded about 30 feet in, but we did go to the bridge entrance right off the creek/river and were able to go a mile back.
Nicotti wrote:Besides searching threads here, you might consider joining a caving grotto, such as this one.
Thanks for the recommendation! We were looking into joining a grotto and did notice this one during our searches.
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JAKACHAN wrote:Thank you for the welcome! We actually just checked out Ash Grove this past Sunday, the Entrance by the Water Treatment plant was flooded about 30 feet in, but we did go to the bridge entrance right off the creek/river and were able to go a mile back.
Did you hit Low Water Bridge while over there? The entrance is right off the road along the path on the north side of the Sac. Here-ish. Lots of flowstone in the entrance, then a crawl thru some breakdown to an L-shaped trunk (if I remember correctly). I think I posted pics on here some place.
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Nicotti wrote: Did you hit Low Water Bridge while over there? The entrance is right off the road along the path on the north side of the Sac. Here-ish. Lots of flowstone in the entrance, then a crawl thru some breakdown to an L-shaped trunk (if I remember correctly). I think I posted pics on here some place.
Indeed we did! We took that pretty far back until we hit some smaller passages up past a big set of columns and decided we would come back another time.

That was definitely a beautiful cave. Saw quite a few blind cave salamanders as well.
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