This weekend we were able to visit Silver Dollar City in Branson. While there we toured the Marvel Cave, which is the original attraction for the park, around which the entire theme park was built. It was an interesting story the man told us as we traversed 500 feet below the surface with our guide Austin. Many years ago the whole area was covered by an ocean, a sink hole formed on the ocean floor. As the water ran through the hole it caused a great whirlpool that formed the cathedral room at the entrance to the caverns. Of course the waters eventually receded leaving this huge cavern for all of us to enjoy. This cathedral room is one of the biggest, holding 5 hot air balloons at one time (they have pictures of them). They say the entire statue of liberty will fit inside this one room and the torch would stick up into the original sink hole opening. We were impressed. The entire tour was awesome with some spectacular sights and beautiful waterfalls. Meghan’s job was to count the stairs during our time underground, after an hour we went up and down 600 sets of steps.
On the left side is the structure built to hold the staircase that winds down into the darkness. You start out just below the original opening which is just to the right of the top of the stairs.
Funny thing is that we had heard the story of how the cave was formed before, when we read it in our History book. Genesis chapters 6-9 give the most accurate account of how this and many other caves were formed.
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