City: Bonne Terre, MO

Category: Tours & Attractions

Telephone: (314) 731-5003

Address: 39 Allen Street

Description: Bonne Terre Mine, a National Historic Site, is the world’s largest freshwater dive resort and offers walking, boat, or scuba tours of world’s largest man-made caverns and lake. Scuba classes are also available. Water conditions remain constant, with more than 100-foot visibility year-round. Sights include mammoth architecture, oar carts, scaffolding, grating, staircases, pillars, slurry pipes, the famed elevator shaft, and more. A National Geographic “Top 10 Adventure,” Bonne Terre/West End Diving is one of the most unusual, beautiful, and relaxing full-service dive resorts anywhere. Bonne Terre was an active mine for more than 100 years, and the resort location was filmed by legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Prices vary by activity.