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What visitors say about Crystal Cave
Real Google reviews, 2020 to 2026. 361 of 372 were written since the cave reopened in March 2022.
Every star level is counted, including the 15 one and two star reviews. Source: Google Maps reviews exported for the Crystal Cave listing. Quotes are copied word for word.
What reviewers mention
- 20.1% of reviews with text praise a guide
- 21.2% mention kids or family
- 25.8% mention how physical the tour is
- 11.7% mention the cool temperature
- 4.9% mention the Wild Cave Tour
Percentages are of the 283 reviews that include text.
In their words
Featured reviews
I've been to a lot of caves in my life, and my husband and I have visited most of them in our area. Crystal Cave is honestly our #1 now! There were some seriously cool and unique formations I'd never seen so wonderfully preserved.
One of the best cave tours I have done, our tour guide, Josh, was so informative and enjoyable to listen to.
What a powerfully beautiful place; a true treasure of the Ozarks! Our guide Alex has a clear love of the place & was very knowledgeable re: The cave's history as well as scientific facts.
We had an amazing time. It was beautiful walking down to and up from the cave. Looks like something from a fairy tale. Tour guides were phenomenal. The manager was phenomenal too! We will absolutely be going again!
Our guide Josh was super knowledgeable and enthusiastic 🤩We had the whole place to ourselves, so if you also prefer a less "conveyor-belt" style of sightseeing, I can't recommend Crystal Cave enough! A bit of mobility is required: if you can take ten steps in a crouch you should be good to go 👍🏽
Went there with my family. It was beautiful to explore. Christina, our guide was incredibly patient with my family, my parents, and younger siblings. Fam of 8. She spoke and described a lot on the tour and was incredibly kind. It felt wonderfully cool inside.
Visited today. What a great experience. Duncan was a fabulous guide. Our son got scared & Duncan gave him a flashlight & was very encouraging to lift his spirits.
We just did the wild cave tour and let me tell you it was beyond incredible. It’s very physically demanding but so worth it. Bring a change of clothes and shoes for sure though. You will be covered head to toe in clay mud, and be sure to wear durable clothes like jeans and a hoodie you will be low crawling a bit.
My gf and I did the wild cave tour. We had a blast! Tour guide was awesome. Very laid back and knowledgeable. Be prepared to get wet and muddy though! Bring an extra pair of clothes for the ride home too.
Awesome cave system with amazing geologic features and fossils! The tour requires a lot of stairs and crouch-walking through tight spaces, so folks with mobility issues might have difficulty.
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Honest notes from happy visitors
The tour has stairs and low ceilings, and reviewers say so. These five loved it and still want you to be ready.
The cave had a lot of tunnels to go through, some you had to stoop (not quite crawl) quite a bit for a few yards. It is not a good place to go if you cannot bend or walk on uneven ground or rocky stairs. Although it has some lighting, I recommend bringing your own flashlight so you can see deeper parts of the cave.
Word of warning- this cave does have low ceilings- if you have trouble with uneven stairs or crouching/ bending over to walk, this will not be the cave for you… but we are in our mid-50s and we didn’t have any trouble. It is amazing how quickly the formations are growing in this cave… it is well worth the $$ to go through it.
The tour requires a lot of stairs and crouch-walking through tight spaces, so folks with mobility issues might have difficulty.
We didn't realize how much energy we were going to have to use for this tour. My husband is 6 ft 4in. Man, it was funny watching him struggle under some of these obstacles. It was still a lot of fun and we go to see a bat and a salamander!
You will be bending almost to a crawl, it will be a bit humid, there are some tight squeezes & there are some slippery stairs. It is beautiful, it’s a unique tour & experience, we saw a tiny bat & there was a little mud. My son was 6 & loved it!