Ritter Springs Park and Cave

Urban exploration in Springfield, Missouri
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There was a cave behind the archery range? I did not know this.

I know there are a couple of other caves on the property beside the three everyone knows about, but I havn't been able to get a good feel for locations on them.
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Can anyone explain to me where the cable bridge is or the caves. Only been a couple times and found a cave off to the left before you cross the waterfall bridge.
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I have been searching for Ritter's cave for some time now and have a potential location within the park. I may be mistaken, however, as there in another power cut region in the area the cave may be on. Either way, if anyone has information on it let me know, as I have the map and want to knock it out.
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I don't think any of the caves in the park are called Ritter Cave. I think there is a cave some ways further south called Ritter cave, but I havn't managed to pinpoint the location just yet. It's on private property either way.

The big obvious caves at Ritter park are Junction Cave, Bat Cave, and Devil's Den/Slide. There are also a couple of other small hole-in-the-wall caves on the property and a sink hole cave called Copperhead Pit either on the park property or just off of it, but I havn't managed to locate that yet.
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I have a pdf of map Boy Scouts (who are/were doing glade restoration just SW of bat cave) prepared a few years ago. email me rleebaker@gmail.com Also have several videos on you tube...Ritter Springs Springfield MO user rleebaker. Spring originates 1/4 mile west and 100 yards north of old Ritter Elemntary Schools (which is now being used by Head Start) about 1 mile NW of Lowes. Spring is on private property.
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ooo you just put your email on a public forum? That'll be exciting.
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