Although today the Roanoke County community of Cave Spring is considered a suburb of Roanoke, it has a history and character all its own. Cave Spring shows as a dot on maps from the mid 1800s and nearby Bent Mountain is even older, tracing its roots back to 1740. Even though its roots are agricultural, today the Cave Spring area sparkles with businesses, clusters of industry, medical and other professional offices and more than 17,500 homes that receive the Cave Spring Connection newspaper.The Cave Spring Connection is in the Roanoke - Lynchburg, VA DMA. The Cave Spring Connection offers ROP and insert advertising opportunities in its bi-monthly circulation. This publication is direct mailed to households in the area. Echo Media has direct relationships with over 7,500 newspapers providing tremendous local coverage.