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The entrance to Arkansas’ War Eagle Cavern is located on a penisula only a few meters above the water level of Beaver Lake. This spectacular natural entrance is the resurgence of a small cave river. It is a wide portal roughly 6m high and twice as wide with a lens-shaped contour. A tour leads through this portal and follows the underground river upstream about 800m until the passage narrows. Highlights of the tour are the stream passage, numerous solutional domes and rimstone pools.
Native Americans used this enormous Arkansas cave portal for hundreds of years before the first white settlers came to the area. In the 1920s, the archeologist Mark Harrington made excavations that were later transferred to the Smithsonian Institute. During the American Civil War time the cave was known as Bat Cave and was the hideout of several men who lived here for three years. Later it was used for parties and dances. |
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