{"id":480,"date":"2021-06-16T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2023-04-02T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:16:44","slug":"480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/480\/","title":{"rendered":"Spook Cave (Side Trip)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, we did not camp at Spook Cave.&nbsp; We had plans to do this in 2020 however Covid forced us to cancel our reservation.&nbsp; We did take the time to pop in for a visit and cave tour this year though.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The campground is not at all how I envisioned it from the campground map.&nbsp; The place looks amazing and is off the beaten trail.&nbsp; The campsites themselves are not at all what I am used to.&nbsp; They are more like a little grassy area with no official boundaries like other campgrounds.&nbsp; All in all the place is very quiet and very scenic.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a nice little setup.&nbsp; The price though is a little steep in my opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We decided to go ahead and take the cave tour.&nbsp; I was fairly disappointed with the cave tour.&nbsp; Personally, I&#8217;m a history nut and I enjoy hearing the historic parts about the cave but our guide couldn&#8217;t speak to that too much.&nbsp; The tour instead featured gimmicks and such which I really did not appreciate.&nbsp; The cave was nice and cool and the water was freezing. It is what it is, but I would of rather had more of a history background on the cave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, below are some photos I took of my experience.&nbsp; I would consider visiting this with our camper but it would have to be a short stay with the price they charge.&nbsp; The gift shop was very nice and we had ice cream.&nbsp; I wanted to buy a shot glass but the store was closed when the tour ended.&nbsp; Bummer!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/volga-river-sra\/\">We ventured here while staying at Volga River SRA on our Summer Tour<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, we did not camp at Spook Cave.&nbsp; We had plans to do this in 2020 however Covid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,20,21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-iowa","category-side-trips","category-spook-cave","category-volga-river-sra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niasnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}