I grew up in Festus and my parents still live there. We used to walk here as kids and "check out" the cave. It was boarded up and drippy back then, surrounded by garbage. It is in a BAD (as in POOR) part of town - down a dead end street housing multi-families and run down shacks with a lot of drug activity. There used to be rumors of turning the cave into a skate park, since it originally was a skating rink, but they would have needed to clean up the entire neighorbood first.