Wind Cave "Tour the Depths" EarthCache
Wind Cave "Tour the Depths"
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Open daily 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. except Thanksgiving Day, December
25, and January 1
All cave tours are ranger-guided and leave from the visitor center.
Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations
for organized groups are available. For more information please
call (605) 745-4600.
To Log this earth cache gather the information to these questions
while on one of the many different ranger guided tours:
What is the current length of the cave?
How did the cave get it's name?
How was the boxwork formed?
What types of speleothem did you spot on the tour?
At what depth did you begin your tour?
A picture is optional but preferred
Wind Cave is the first cave in the world to be designated as a
national park. That occurred on January 9, 1903.
Wind Cave has always been a world class natural resource. However,
it was not until explorers first entered, and then continued to
push further underground, that the significance of Wind Cave began
to be realized.
When most people think about the importance of Wind Cave they tend
to dwell on boxwork and the cave's vast length. Over many years of
exploration and mapping, Wind Cave has grown to be one of the
world's largest known caves. C This places Wind Cave as the third
longest cave in the United States and fourth longest cave in the
world. As people explore the cave, they learn more about the
geology and formation of the cave, and about how it became the
world-class resource that it is today.
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