Strategic illumination throws light and shadow onto the many surfaces, revealing a myriad of colors. Formations take strange shapes for human visitors, looking like dozens of corkscrews, cabbage heads, an old-world Santa Claus, a white rat climbing an onyx drapery, a huge heart, fern fronds and other fantasies. Each cave is different, says Jewell Wallace, who owns and operates War Eagle Cavern on Scenic Hwy. 12 at Rogers. At War Eagle, which is on Beaver Lake, the entrance is outside.
Visitors walk down the mountainside, turn a corner and find the wide cave entrance.
We want to give our visitors the feeling of going into a wild cave. Inside is an underground stream, an abundance of crinoid fossils, unusual dome pits, onyx, and much more. At this cave, there are no steps in the floor of the cavern. We explain how caves form, how formations develop, and how many millions of years it takes to form a cave. Visitors to Mystic Caverns, eight miles south of Harrison on Scenic 7 National Byway, will find two caves separated by 60 feet of rock.