{"id":5062,"date":"2017-05-27T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2022-06-13T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:27:51","slug":"talking-rocks-cavern-a-small-vertical-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5062","title":{"rendered":"Talking Rocks Cavern &#8211; a small vertical cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Branson we visited the Talking Rocks Cavern nearby. It&#8217;s not a big cave but has lots of pretty formations. It was named Talking Rocks because several decades ago when the first tours were started, speakers hidden in the cave would &#8216;talk&#8217; as guests grew near, making it sound like the rocks were talking. The rocks don&#8217;t talk anymore, a guide gives you information.<\/p>\n<p>This cave has lots of draperies and bacon formations. Bacon is what a drapery formation that has stripes of colors is called &#8211; it does look like bacon hanging from the ceiling!<\/p>\n<p>This is a mostly vertical cave, and you climb down stairs to see the formations and cavern area, then climb back up the stairs. It&#8217;s not a lot of stairs thank goodness!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures we took:<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Spinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Spinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Spinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Rect2 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: -1.1s;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Spinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b16848de4Rect3 {\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation-delay: -1.0s;\r\n\t\t\t  animation-delay: 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It&#8217;s not a big cave but has lots of pretty formations. It was named Talking Rocks because several decades ago when the first tours were started, speakers hidden in the cave would &#8216;talk&#8217; as guests grew near, making it sound like the rocks were talking. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talking Rocks Cavern &#8211; a small vertical cave<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-128-hollister-mo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}