MERAMEC CAVERNS
Stanton, Franklin County, Missouri

Along Historic Rt. 66

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Bat Cave near Meramec Caverns provides a home
for gray bats.  Photographed:  June, 2006


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Picture of Bat Cave taken through entrance bars.
Photographed:  June, 2006



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MeramecCavernsEntrance04.jpg (26156 bytes) Man in lower left corner is Gene walking toward the restaurant &
gift shop at entrance to the caverns. Photographed: June, 2006



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Another angle of the entrance.  Notice the rock
bluff in the background.  Under this bluff is the
actual cave entrance.  Photographed: June, 2006

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This is in the gift shop looking toward the actual
entrance to the cave.  Photographed: June, 2006



MeramecCavernsEntrance03.jpg (6577 bytes)
This is just inside the entrance.  The cavern
is reputed to have been the hide-out of the

notorious outlaw Jesse James.
Photographed: June, 2006

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Meramec Caverns is 70,000,000 years old & is the worlds largest cave formation.  It contains many beautiful stalactite/stalagmite formations.
Picture is from a postcard. 



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View of Meramec River taken from the entrance
of the gift shop.  You can see the river peeking
through the trees just to the left & up slightly from
the flower box. Photographed:  June, 2006

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Better view of the Meramec River taken from the
parking lot.  Photographed: June, 2006


 

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