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Visitor
Center
Onondaga Cave's beautiful visitor center greets you with
three accessible parking spaces adjacent to the entrance.
Inside is a spacious lobby with area information, an
accessible water fountain and accessible restrooms. Off to
one side is the interpretive room where exhibits of local
animals, rocks and minerals may be enjoyed.
The park store, located across from the entrance, provides gifts, mementos, books, t-shirts and some camping supplies. It is here where you purchase your cave tour tickets.
To the right of the lobby is the park's museum with a cave diorama and exhibits interpreting this area's history.
Onondaga
Cave
The cave itself has excessive slopes and accessibility is
left to the judgement of the individual. The length of the
tour is one mile and takes one hour and 15 minutes to
complete. Flip books are available for visitors who can't
access the cave.
Seating is available in the lobby, or you may relax at tables on the outside deck while waiting for, or resting after, your tour.
An accessible public telephone is located on the outside deck.
Shelter Day-Use Area
The picnic shelter overlooks Blue Heron Lake, which is home
to beaver, geese and many other types of wildlife. This
mostly level area is sunny and provides two accessible
parking spaces adjacent to the shelter's pathway. Nearby are
accessible vault toilets. The shelter accommodates 72 people
and may be reserved.
Campground
The 2004 camping season saw a new campground that includes
two accessible electric and two accessible basic campsites.
The campground provides accessible water hydrants and a
modified dump station that is easier to use for many.
The centrally located showerhouse provides one accessible parking space in a mostly level parking lot. Paved pathways provide access to the building where a public phone and park information board is located. The entrances into the building require turning in a 4-foot by 5-foot space. The showerhouse offers front-transfer toilets, push-action faucets and shower rooms with clothes hooks, a shelf, grab bars and lever-handled faucets. These are wheelchair accessible. This building is not labeled as accessible due to the turning space restriction at the entrance.
The laundry has top-operated machines and a table for folding. Maneuvering room is limited to 4-foot aisles. Benches are available in the breezeway for your comfort.
The amphitheater has not been modified for accessibility as of yet. The pathway is of 1-inch gravel with an excessive slope of 8.5 percent. The seating area has a wood-chip base and space is available in front for wheelchairs.
Special-Use Area
This remote camping area is located on the side of
a hill and provides a vault toilet, fire rings and picnic
tables. This area has not been modified for
accessibility.
Day-Use Area
This shady picnic area overlooking the Meramec
River has two accessible parking spaces and sites with
extended-end tables. However, travel is across natural turf
and a barrier may result from the table pad being above
ground level. An accessible vault toilet is located at the
end of this area and has two accessible parking spaces.
Boat Launch Area
The two-lane boat ramp has a slope of 9.6 percent and is of
concrete. The mostly level asphalt parking lot has one
accessible parking space near an accessible vault toilet. The
pathway to the toilet contains a slope of 9 percent for five
feet.
Trails
The scenic Blue Heron Trail is one-half mile long and runs
from the visitor center to the campground past the Spring
Pond. It has a base of packed gravel fines. This trail is
considered accessible.
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