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Bluff Dweller's Cave is an archeologically significant cave located in the Ozark Mountains near Noel, Missouri. It was created during the Paleozoic Era by the flow of water through joints in the St. Joe Limestone. The Paleo-Indians, called Bluff Dwellers, lived in the caves some 12,000 years ago. The caves have about 4,000 feet of explored passages and have been open to the public since 1927. They have a number of interesting speleothems such as lily pads, cave corals, and popcorn. The most fascinating formations are a 2.5 cm thick rimstone pool almost 23 meters long, the Musical Chimes (a curtains of hollow rock stalactites that produce a musical frequency similar to a xylophone), and The Ten Ton Balanced Rock on two pivots. The cave is home to a number of animals such as the albino cave crayfish, the grotto salamander, and eastern pipistrelle bat.
163 Cave Rd, Noel, MO 64854
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