The Meramec River was at the highest level on record in Sullivan Monday evening. Recent heavy rainfall caused parts of the Meramec State Park to flood. The Meramec Caverns in Stanton are flooded, too.

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 detected ...

Missouri has a whole other world under the surface of the Earth. Far below the surface of Missouri, a state that is perhaps best known for Kansas City-style barbeque, Anheuser-Busch, and an odd ...

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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 — ...

STANTON • Visitors have flocked to Meramec Caverns since the 1930s when Lester Turilli’s great-grandparents lived in a tent and charged 5 cents per tour of the caves. Now the popular Franklin County ...

Meramec Caverns has laid off about half of its 100 employees, Turilli said. The gift shop, motel and restaurant are open, and visitors can still enjoy riverboat rides, canoe and raft trips, panning ...

People might not believe it if they haven't been to Missouri, but the state, which is also known as the Cave State, is home to over 7,000 caves offering a plethora of breathtaking subterranean ...

Formed over thousands, even millions of years, caverns are hidden natural wonders filled with gravity -defying formations made through the Earth’s constant shifting. While there are some 55,500-plus ...