Then and Now Photo of the Roubidoux Spring in Waynesville, MO Roubidoux Spring: Where 37 Million Gallons a Day Tell Ten Thousand Years of Stories From mastodon migration path to Cherokee tears to underwater cave exploration, Waynesville's spring connects ancient geology to living memory Every day, 37 million gallons of fresh water bubble and gurgle from Roubidoux Spring in Laughlin Park, just as they have for millennia. The spring that made this location valuable to mastodons