Yesterday a couple friends and I went to Bangor Cave near the Blount Springs area in northern Alabama. In the 30s this cave was sort of an underground (literally) club, and also a hidden illegal casino in the back room behind a steel bolted door. It's kind of a local secret. There are no signs to get to it, no markers of any kind. You park on the side of a road and hike through the woods a few hundred yards to get to it. There is a bunch of graffiti and trash in there now from kids partying and whatnot over the years, however that's only near the entrances, few ventured further than a couple hundred feet into the cave.
This is a pic looking out from a man-made room inside the main club room, I guess this was for people working the bar or something:
I guess from the recent rains but the floors were insanely slick, you had to be careful every step you took. Each of us fell several times.
This is a broken wall, possibly separating the club from the casino?
Looking up from the other side of the wall. You can barely see the rope other cavers have left. Without the rope climbing up or down that mud wall would have been impossible
This is the 2nd entrance we found. I'm just guessing but it felt to be about a mile or so from the main entrance.
Not sure how/if this entrance was used in the 30s.
Random cave pics now...
We crawled on our knees and elbows for several hundred feet only to run into a deadend. I think water may run through this because there were leaves everywhere.
Random graffiti:
Wish I took pics of the main club room. I'll see if I can find pics from my first trip to the cave. I didn't go but about 50 feet into it the first trip as we were on bikes.
This is a pic looking out from a man-made room inside the main club room, I guess this was for people working the bar or something:
I guess from the recent rains but the floors were insanely slick, you had to be careful every step you took. Each of us fell several times.
This is a broken wall, possibly separating the club from the casino?
Looking up from the other side of the wall. You can barely see the rope other cavers have left. Without the rope climbing up or down that mud wall would have been impossible
This is the 2nd entrance we found. I'm just guessing but it felt to be about a mile or so from the main entrance.
Not sure how/if this entrance was used in the 30s.
Random cave pics now...
We crawled on our knees and elbows for several hundred feet only to run into a deadend. I think water may run through this because there were leaves everywhere.
Random graffiti:
Wish I took pics of the main club room. I'll see if I can find pics from my first trip to the cave. I didn't go but about 50 feet into it the first trip as we were on bikes.