Bridal Cave & Thunder Mountain Park

Our staff and visitors have been having a blast this October during our Fall Festival! Our fall festival at the Lake happens every weekend in October which means this weekend is our LAST weekend for our Fall Festival for 2019! You won't want to miss out on cave tours, pumpkins, and fall fun! Read on to learn more about our final weekend for Thunder Mountain Fall Festival!  About Our Fall Festival Visiting our family attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks during our Fall Festival is like going to the pumpkin patch except you get to take a cave tour while you're here - talk about DOUBLE the fall family fun! There are many fall activities to participate in while you're here and coming to see our decorations is reason enough to visit. Our park is the best decorated on the water fall festival at the Lake of the Ozarks with thousands pumpkins, hundreds of mums, straw bails, hay bale art, and MORE!  Most of our fall activities are included with paid admission to ...

Thunder Mountain Fall Festival is happening every weekend in October and if you haven't visited our Lake of the Ozarks attraction this October, it's the perfect fall family fun activity! When you purchase tickets to tour Bridal Cave, all of the fall festival activities are included with your ticket. Our Lake of the Ozarks Fall Festival will only be going on a few more weekends so be sure to make plans to visit us during the month of October!  Discounted Fall Decor!  When you take the cave tour during the Fall Festival, you not only get to do all the activities but you can now get the best prices on Fall Decorations. Starting this weekend it is just a “Buck a Pumpkin” for any pumpkin you choose and only $3 for any mum . These prices are only valid for folks who tour the cave.  Fall Activites at Thunder Mountain Park  You'll get everything but the pumpkin patch when you visit Bridal Cave during our Fall Festival. Come have some Family Fun As...

Our Fall Festival at the Lake of the Ozarks is off to a great start and if you missed us last weekend, no worries because Thunder Mountain Fall Festival is open every weekend in October! Bridal Cave and Thunder Mountain Park is already gorgeous in the fall but when you add thousands of pumpkins, hundreds of mums, straw bails, and other fall decor throughout the park -- it's even more beautiful! Read on to find out what to expect this October when you visit our cave at the Lake of the Ozarks . Beautiful Scenery Bridal Cave is a well-known as one of America's most scenic cave tours . It remains a constant 60° inside the cave, and you will see room after room of incredible mineral deposits, giant columns, stalactites and stalagmites, massive draperies, and so much more all created over millions of years of formation. Outside, in Thunder Mountain Park, you've got nature trails to explore and of course, that amazing lake view. Right now for the Thunder Mountain Fall Fe...

October is finally here which means our Lake of the Ozarks Fall Festival is coming back! Every weekend in October , our family attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks will host our Thunder Mountain Fall Festival where the park will come alive with fun fall activities for all to enjoy! Read on to get all of the details for this years fall festival! Opening THIS Weekend!  The Thunder Mountain Fall Festival will open this weekend -- Saturday, October 5th and will be open on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the entire month of October. When you purchase a ticket for the Bridal Cave Tour, you get to enjoy all of the fall festival activities while you're in the park. Below is everything you have to look forward to when you visit us this October!  Sarsaparilla Making  Feed Giant Fish  Bean Bat Toss  Duck Races Pumpkin Chunkin Range  Jumbo Tic Tac Toe  Corn Crib Pedal  Tractor Races Haybale Mountain  Fire Pits   Numerous ...

We have been having a blast at our Thunder Mountain Fall Festival this year! If you haven't had the chance to join in on the fun fall activities at Bridal Cave , it's not too late! Our Fall Festival at the Lake of the Ozarks will be open on Saturday and Sunday but it will be your last chance until next year. Why not bring your whole family out for some Family Fun...As It Should Be ! Exciting Demonstrations and Live Music!  As part of our Fall Festival, we have some exciting demonstrations and live music in the park! From 12pm to 3pm the extremely talented Bluegrass Duo Jim & Darlene will be in the park playing bluegrass music.  We will also have a demonstration on how to make sarsaparilla. Sarsaparilla is an old time root beer and surprisingly delicious! You'll get to see how it's made and even get a free sample to try!  Our Fall Festival Activities  For the price of admission to tour Bridal Cave, the activities for our fall festiva...

Our fall festival at the Lake of the Ozarks is off to a great start and if you haven't got the chance to check it out, this weekend is going to be the perfect weekend to bring the gang out to Bridal Cave! The weather forecast is looking perfect for some fall fun at our scenic attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks . In addition to the natural scenic beauty, the whole park is decorated with pumpkins, mums, straw bales and more! Coming to see the decorations alone is worth the trip. Beautiful Scenery  Bridal Cave is known as one of Americas most scenic caverns . You will see room after room of incredible mineral deposits, giant columns, stalactites and stalagmites, massive draperies, and so much more all created over millions of years of formation. Take a tour of our cave at the Lake of the Ozarks and our fall festival activities are included with your cave admission which adds even more excitement to our family attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks . Take a step outs...

We have one weekend under our belt for our 2nd Annual Thunder Mountain Fall Festival and both our staff and guests had a great time enjoying all the fall activities in the park. If you missed us last weekend, no worries because our Fall Festival at the Lake of the Ozarks will take place every weekend in October, so you still have plenty of time to join in on the fun at our family attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks . From pumpkin painting, caves tours, pedal tractor racing, and much much more, there is something for everyone to enjoy at the Fall Festival. One of the popular stations at our Fall Festival is our sarsaparilla making tent! Not sure what sarsaparilla is? Continue reading to find out! What is Sarsparilla?  During our Fall Festival, we show you what goes into making sarsparilla soda, which is much like an old fashion root beer. But what exactly is sarsparilla? Sarsparilla is a vine that grows in warmer clients in southern states in the US and Centr...

It's finally here, our 2nd Annual Thunder Mountain Fall Festival at Bridal Cave ! Our staff has worked hard the past few weeks to transform our family attraction at the Lake of the Ozarks into the best decorated fall event at the Lake of the Ozarks . In addition to our normal cave tour, there will be so many fun activities to enjoy while you are here in the park. Our Fall Festival will take place every weekend in October so you will have plenty of opportunities this October to join in on the fun! Read on to find out what this spectacular event will entail this October! This festival is the best decorated event at the Lake with Over 3,000 pumpkins, 1,000 bales of straw and hundreds and hundreds of fresh blooming Mums…all for sale at discount prices with a cave tour. Get your fall decorations and have Family Fun as it Should be . Included In Paid Admission to the Bridal Cave Tour!  In addition to touring one of Americas most scenic caverns, every weekend in Octo...

Fall is finally here and the Lake of the Ozarks is going to be full of fun events to enjoy with your friends and family! Our Thunder Mountain Fall Festival starts very soon and our staff is working hard to transform our Lake of the Ozarks attraction for our 2nd Annual Thunder Mountain Fall Festival! Every weekend in October, the park comes alive with live bluegrass music, over 1,000 pumpkins in the park, and many other fall-themed activities! In the meantime, if you can't wait to have some fall fun, Saturday, September 29th, 2018 with be the Pumkin Chunkin Palooza at Ozarks Amphitheater. Get all the details below! Pumkin Chunkin Palooza Saturday, September 29th 10am-5pm The main event is centered around the giant trebuchet, which is a machine that was used in medieval times to hurl stones or other large objects at their opponents. For this event, one was built to chuck pumpkins far and wide, just for fun! Trebuchet demonstrations will be held every hour on the h...

The 1st Annual Thunder Mountain Fall Festival is winding down. We are about to enter the final weekend of entertainment and demonstrations, and the last day to enjoy festival activities will be on Tuesday, October 31, aka Halloween. There are only a few more days to enjoy this extra-special fun at Bridal Cave & Thunder Mountain Park . (Although the park is tons of fun even when those things aren't going on!) Once it's over, we have to do something with all of those wonderful decorations we put up.   FREE Fall Decor Once our Lake of the Ozarks fall festival is over, we want to repurpose as many of the autumn decorations as possible. They are simply too gorgeous to go to waste once we take them down. That's where you come in.  Beginning on Wednesday, November 1, from 9 am - 4 pm , we will be giving away all of the items we got from local farms that were used to decorate the park. If you have a use for straw, round hay bales, corn, or pumpkins, these will...