diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 8d423472..3bc40263 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ or bug reports specific to 3.2 will be closed.
   and `get_limits <http://awslimitchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/awslimitchecker.checker.html#awslimitchecker.checker.AwsLimitChecker.get_limits>`_
   methods now take an optional ``service`` *list* keyword argument instead of a *string* for a
   single service name.
-* `PR #251 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/pull/251>`_ to handle GovCloud-specific edge cases; specifically, UnsupportedOperation errors
+* `PR #251 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/pull/251>`_ - Handle GovCloud-specific edge cases; specifically, UnsupportedOperation errors
   for EC2 Spot Instance-related API calls, and limits returned as 0 by the DescribeAccountAttributes EC2 API action.
-* `PR #249 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/pull/249>`_ to add support for RedShift limits (Redshift subnet groups and Redshift manual snapshots).
+* `PR #249 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/pull/249>`_ - Add support for RedShift limits (Redshift subnet groups and Redshift manual snapshots).
   This requires the ``redshift:DescribeClusterSnapshots`` and ``redshift:DescribeClusterSubnetGroups`` IAM permissions.
 * `Issue #259 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/issues/259>`_ - remove duplicates from required IAM policy returned by ``awslimitchecker.checker.AwsLimitChecker.get_required_iam_policy`` and ``awslimitchecker --iam-policy``.
 * Various TravisCI/tox build fixes:
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ or bug reports specific to 3.2 will be closed.
   * Switch integration3 tox env from py3.4 to py3.6
 
 * `PR #256 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/pull/256>`_ - Add example of wrapping awslimitchecker in a script to send metrics to `Prometheus <https://prometheus.io/>`_.
-* `Issue #236 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/issues/236>`_ Drop support for Python 3.2; stop testing under py32.
-
+* `Issue #236 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/issues/236>`_ - Drop support for Python 3.2; stop testing under py32.
+* `Issue #257 <https://github.com/jantman/awslimitchecker/issues/257>`_ - Handle ElastiCache DescribeCacheCluster responses that are missing ``CacheNodes`` key in a cluster description.
 
 0.7.0 (2017-01-15)
 ------------------
diff --git a/awslimitchecker/services/elasticache.py b/awslimitchecker/services/elasticache.py
index d62be589..e5b1d5a7 100644
--- a/awslimitchecker/services/elasticache.py
+++ b/awslimitchecker/services/elasticache.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _find_usage_nodes(self):
             for cluster in page['CacheClusters']:
                 try:
                     num_nodes = len(cluster['CacheNodes'])
-                except (IndexError, TypeError):
+                except (IndexError, TypeError, KeyError):
                     # sometimes CacheNodes is None...
                     logger.debug(
                         "Cache Cluster '%s' returned dict with CacheNodes "
diff --git a/awslimitchecker/tests/services/result_fixtures.py b/awslimitchecker/tests/services/result_fixtures.py
index c69293a9..8bec2824 100644
--- a/awslimitchecker/tests/services/result_fixtures.py
+++ b/awslimitchecker/tests/services/result_fixtures.py
@@ -1304,6 +1304,39 @@ class ElastiCache(object):
                 'PreferredMaintenanceWindow': 'mon:05:30-mon:06:30',
                 'CacheNodes': None,
             },
+            {
+                'Engine': 'redis',
+                'CacheParameterGroup': {
+                    'CacheNodeIdsToReboot': [],
+                    'CacheParameterGroupName': 'default.redis2.8',
+                    'ParameterApplyStatus': 'in-sync'
+                },
+                'CacheClusterId': 'redis3',
+                'CacheSecurityGroups': [
+                    {
+                        'Status': 'active',
+                        'CacheSecurityGroupName': 'csg-redis2'
+                    }
+                ],
+                'ConfigurationEndpoint': None,
+                'CacheClusterCreateTime': 1412253787.123,
+                'ReplicationGroupId': None,
+                'AutoMinorVersionUpgrade': True,
+                'CacheClusterStatus': 'available',
+                'NumCacheNodes': 4,
+                'PreferredAvailabilityZone': 'us-east-1a',
+                'SecurityGroups': None,
+                'CacheSubnetGroupName': None,
+                'EngineVersion': '2.8.6',
+                'PendingModifiedValues': {
+                    'NumCacheNodes': None,
+                    'EngineVersion': None,
+                    'CacheNodeIdsToRemove': None
+                },
+                'CacheNodeType': 'cache.m3.medium',
+                'NotificationConfiguration': None,
+                'PreferredMaintenanceWindow': 'mon:05:30-mon:06:30'
+            },
         ],
     })
 
diff --git a/awslimitchecker/tests/services/test_elasticache.py b/awslimitchecker/tests/services/test_elasticache.py
index 10e04aa5..e76da01f 100644
--- a/awslimitchecker/tests/services/test_elasticache.py
+++ b/awslimitchecker/tests/services/test_elasticache.py
@@ -134,20 +134,22 @@ def test_find_usage_nodes(self):
 
         usage = cls.limits['Nodes'].get_current_usage()
         assert len(usage) == 1
-        assert usage[0].get_value() == 7
+        assert usage[0].get_value() == 11
 
         usage = cls.limits['Clusters'].get_current_usage()
         assert len(usage) == 1
-        assert usage[0].get_value() == 3
+        assert usage[0].get_value() == 4
 
         usage = sorted(cls.limits['Nodes per Cluster'].get_current_usage())
-        assert len(usage) == 3
+        assert len(usage) == 4
         assert usage[0].get_value() == 1
         assert usage[0].resource_id == 'memcached1'
         assert usage[1].get_value() == 2
         assert usage[1].resource_id == 'redis1'
         assert usage[2].get_value() == 4
         assert usage[2].resource_id == 'redis2'
+        assert usage[3].get_value() == 4
+        assert usage[3].resource_id == 'redis3'
 
         assert mock_conn.mock_calls == [
             call.get_paginator('describe_cache_clusters'),