Things to Do and Places to Go

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  • Mammoth Cave National Park

    Explore Wildflowers at Cedar Sink

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Front-Country Hiking
    • Locations: Mammoth Cave National Park
    • Duration: 45-60 Minutes
    • Reservations: No
    • Pets: Yes
    • Location: Cedar Sink Trailhead
    • Season: Spring, Summer, Fall
    • Time Of Day: Day, Dawn, Dusk
    White flowers

    Stunning rock faces, cave springs, and geological panoramas, you will experience a wide array of seasonal wildflowers and biodiversity.

  • Ozark National Scenic Riverways

    Round Spring Guided Cave Tour

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Guided Tours
    • Locations: Ozark National Scenic Riverways
    • Duration: 60-90 Minutes
    • Reservations: No
    • Age: 4 and Older
    • Pets: No
    • Location: Round Spring Cave
    • Season: Summer
    • Time Of Day: Day
    A ranger points at cave formations within a dark cave room.

    Discover the amazing world beneath your feet! Round Spring Cave is considered the most spectacular cave within Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Large, varied formations fill over a mile of the passage, which has been well-preserved over the years. There is no better way to learn about Ozark caves than through a tour!

  • Mammoth Cave National Park

    The Church

    • Type: Place
    • Locations: Mammoth Cave National Park
    Towering cave walls lit up from below. A wide open paved trail is in the center of the room.

    Church services once held in the cave led to the name for this cave room.

  • Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve

    Explore a Cave

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Caving
    • Duration: 60-90 Minutes
    • Reservations: No
    • Pets: No
    • Location: Caves Area
    • Season: Summer, Fall
    A person walks down a set out stairs into the wide open entrance of a lava tube.

    Explore Craters' dynamic underground world of lava tubes.

  • Wind Cave National Park

    Visit Wind Cave's Natural Entrance

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Hiking
    • Duration: 10-20 Minutes
    • Reservations: No
    • Pets: Yes
    • Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
    • Time Of Day: Day, Night, Dawn, Dusk
    a small hole in a stone depression next to a large sign and short rock wall

    You can still see the largest natural opening into Wind Cave without going on a tour. This small hole is one of the only known natural entrances into the cave. Lakota oral tradition speaks of how the first bison and humans emerged from this deeply spiritual place.

  • Wind Cave National Park

    Take a Cave Tour

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Guided Tours
    • Duration: 60-90 Minutes
    • Reservations: Yes
    • Pets: No
    • Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
    • Time Of Day: Day
    A young male visitor on a stairway stops to look at boxwork on the ceiling above him.

    Visit one of the world's longest and most complex caves.

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Hiking
    • Duration: 1-2 Hours
    • Reservations: No
    • Pets: No
    • Location: Moses Spring Trailhead
    • Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
    • Time Of Day: Day, Night, Dawn, Dusk
    Narrow rock staircase edged out of rock wall  in a narrow rock canyon

    East Side Trails, Moderate Hikes, Loop Hike, Cave Hike

    • Type: Things To Do
    • Subtype: Hiking
    • Duration: 1-2 Hours
    • Reservations: No
    • Pets: No
    • Location: Balconies Trailhead
    • Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
    • Time Of Day: Day, Night, Dawn, Dusk
    Large boulder wedged in narrow rock canyon.

    West Side Trails, Moderate Hikes, Loop Hike, Cave Hike

  • Great Basin National Park

    Great Basin National Heritage Area

    • Type: Place
    • Locations: Great Basin National Park
    Woman and dog at a mountain viewpoint

    Straddling the Nevada-Utah state line, the Great Basin National Heritage Area lies in the vast, open, quiet expanse of the continent’s basin and range physiographic province characterized by long, high-elevation desert valleys separated by steep, narrow mountain ranges.

  • Coronado National Memorial

    Coronado Cave Trail

    • Type: Place
    • Locations: Coronado National Memorial
    View looking east from canyon, sotol plant in foreground, San Juan Peak in the distance.

    Trail that leads to the Coronado Cave.

Last updated: December 9, 2020

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