A small sign alerts visitors the Meramec Caverns closed for tours on Friday, April 1, 2016. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com Laurie Skrivan ...

A small sign alerts visitors the Meramec Caverns closed for tours on Friday, April 1, 2016. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com ...

Located in Stanton, Missouri, Meramec Caverns offers cave and riverboat tours, as well as ziplining and more.

As temperatures climbed into the 90s Wednesday afternoon, it was a cool 60 degrees inside Meramec Caverns on National Cave Day. “Missouri is known as the cave state,” says Turilli.

Meramec Caverns hopes to reopen in time for the unofficial start to summer go unfulfilled. The popular tourist attraction near Sullivan, Missouri, has been closed since April after the EPA ...

Lester Dill found his passion underground with the commercial development of Meramec Caverns in 1933. Today, his grandson, Lester Turilli Sr. is taking the tourist attraction to new heights ...

Signs (billboards) were placed along roadways, ads were painted on barns in 14 states, and bumper signs, (bumper stickers had not yet been invented), were attached to every car that visited the cave.

SULLIVAN, MO (KTVI) – Friday was the first day since March 10 you could stand next to the 1860’s iron boat on display inside the entrance to Meramec Caverns. Thursday, officials with the ...

Meramec Caverns, a popular Missouri attraction that draws thousands of visitors each year, will remain closed through the Memorial Day weekend because of potentially harmful vapors discovered late ...