Mossy Glen Cave

Small bear den linking Dayspring Canyon with the area near Fort Dawnguard, home to several bears, a skeever and three loot chests.

Mossy Glen Cave (Dawnguard) is a modest cave tucked into the hills around Fort Dawnguard. It works as a little shortcut with two entrances, and it is a handy place to grab some pelts and a few chests’ worth of random loot while you are visiting the vampire hunters.

What you’ll find

  • One entrance in Dayspring Canyon, behind the trees where the Dawnguard chop their firewood.
  • A second entrance to the left of Fort Dawnguard’s first tower, if you approach from the side near Stendarr’s Beacon.
  • A main room occupied by four bears and/or cave bears – plus one skeever who has made some questionable roommate choices.
  • Three chests filled with random loot.

Tips

Four bears in one room is a lot of fur and claws at once, so do not just stroll in at low level. Draw them back toward the entrance one at a time, or bring a friend from the fort. The payoff is a stack of bear pelts, cave bear pelts and bear claws to go with whatever the chests cough up.

Details checked against community wiki articles and the Skyrim/Dawnguard game files, summarised in our own words.

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Bear in Skyrim: stats, locations and loot for the bear, cave bear and snow bear, plus disease risks, pelts, claws and the Ivarstead bear-hunting job.
Skeevers are Skyrim’s giant rats – weak, everywhere and occasionally diseased. Where to find them and what the skeever tail is good for.

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Sources checked: Elder Scrolls Fandom location articles (Dawnguard export 2026-10-13); Skyrim/Dawnguard game files