Overall, thumbs up on the Onyx Cave experience. Their prices seem very reasonable and the staff just smiles so much and makes you feel like family. Once I was done with my tour I go back into the gift shop and actually find several things to purchase. The self guided tour was not all that bad of an experience, you just have to wait for another cave explorer to pass by and take your picture of you in the cave. You simply press a button on the handrail at strategic points and you get a detailed message of those formations. The pictures I attached show you the Stairway into the Earth and believe me thats just the feeling you get when you descend the stairway.
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They explain how to use the headset and you are on your way. There is a small fee to go into the cave but the catch here is you go in by yourself. You are greeted by the smiling and very friendly staff at the large gift shop. The big sign over the doorway lets you know you have found the right spot. The entrance is about 150 yard down a set of steps. You arrive at the facility and you are on a very steep paved road. The cave was easy to find and had good roads to access it. While in Eureka Springs, Arkansas on a cavern hunting trip I found the Onyx Cave. Given the short walk inside, I would suggest this is a really good cave for beginners or families with young children who may have never visited such a place before. But again, nothing that was all that spectacular. The recorded guided tour takes around 25 minutes in all and there are some interesting formations inside. They said the cave stays at around 53 degrees year round, but inside, it felt cool not cold.
Inside, the staff does a great job keeping the shared equipment, like the headphones, clean after every use. The walk from the parking area DOWN to the mine is formidable, especially for the elderly and little kids. The road towards the ends get REALLY narrow so watch your speed and keep an eye out for others coming the other way. If you are staying in Eureka Springs, the caverns on right close by. That said, Onyx has some things going for it. It's still interesting, but I'd be hard-pressed to recommend it.I wanted to give this one a better review, but having been in a number of other caverns over the years, my perspective is probably a bit jaded by some of the truly spectacular cave systems I have visited. You'd be nearly better off just watching narrated cave exploration videos online. The living cave has been toured since 1891 and features numerous and. It's a bit nonsensical to require them in the first place, but alas, Eureka Springs as a whole seemed insistent upon masks.įor the relatively short length and that there's not even a staff member doing the tour, it felt overpriced even at $10/person. Watch as Julie Burroghs and Noah Hutchison join Good Day NWA with details on what’s new at the Onyx Cave in Eureka Springs. On the bright side, despite forcing you to wear masks in the gift shop, they allow you to have them off in the cave itself. There are a few interesting items, but we nearly spent as much time waiting for our 'tour' to start as we did taking the tour itself. Speaking of walkways, the cave is a linear back-and-forth with no real sense of exploration. Perhaps others will have better luck, but I believe they need better signage and repainted indicators on the walkways. The narration seemed unclear to our group as to where to stop or start, and we found ourselves at one point behind of the narration, and at another point, ahead of it. What you get is a self-guided tour while wearing headphones. We stopped here hoping for a guided cave tour.
I wanted to give this one a better review, but having been in a number of other caverns over the years, my perspective is probably a bit jaded by some of the truly spectacular cave systems I have visited.
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