Current River Cavern
Current River Cavern is a show cave located in one mile west of Van Buren, MO on U.S. Route 60 in Missouri, U.S. Route 60. The cave is located inside Cave Spring Park. The cave was first opened as a show cave in 1940 under the name "Cave Spring Onyx Caverns". Current River Cavern was formed exclusively by the stream that still runs through the cave; a rarity among Missouri caves. The cave is set in the Eminence Formation, Eminence Dolomite. The commercial section of the cave extends 240 ft before ending at a flooded passage."Caves of the Current River Valley", Journal of the Missouri Speleological Survey, Volume 22, Numbers 3-4, Pages 82, 84. A 1996 survey reported 2,384 ft of passages extending far beyond the commercial section. The owners are seeking an alternative entrance and hope to open more of the cave to visitors in the future. Current River Cavern is the first show cave to use all battery powered, wireless LED lights for illumination. The LED lights do not prom ...
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Stream Passage
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes th ...
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