Pioneer Forest

Owned and managed by the LAD Foundation, Missouri’s largest private land owner, the Pioneer Forest has some of the most remote and spectacular terrain within the Missouri Ozarks.  

In particular, the Roger Pryor Backcountry. which is home to significant tributaries to the Current River is also home to an abundance of caves.  

Most of these caves are not exceptionally large nor long but nearly all are remote and beautiful.

Jennifer Light in a Pioneer Forest Cavern by Dan Lamping