Robber's Cave

Robber’s cave

ozark_enjoyer - 17/01/2026

Entrance predicted here. Located on the lake about .6 miles SE of duroc bay. Missouri speleology volume 1, number 1 : “The entrance of Robber’s Cave is in a small limestone bluff at the edge of the water on the osage arm (main channel) of Lake of the Ozarks. The entrance is approximately seven feet high and twelve feet wide. A great amount of driftwood is deposited in and around the cave entrance during times of high water. Fifty feet back, the cave is reduced to a stoopway for 75 feet over a series of rimstone pools, then it opens up and forks. The two forks are about five feet above the floor of the main passage, and a stream issues from each. The fork to the right ends about 80’ back where it is closed by flowstone and formations. The left, or main passage, continues 100’ to a flowstone half-dome which has been formed by mineral laden water brought in by a streamlet coming in from the right. The half-done nearly blocks the passage but a slim person can squirm over into the water which is damned up behind it on the left. There the passage continues with cieling heights of 6-8’ but the caver sinks to his arm pits in thigh-deep silt under a couple feet of water, held back by the half dome. The cave could continue for some distance. It is doubtful however, that it connects with elisha cave on the other side of the ridge and at least 3500’ distant, although some local people claim that it does.”