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These artifacts from Helge Larsen's 1949-1950 excavations at the Trail Creek Caves Site are housed at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Interior of Trail Creek Cave 2. The Trail Creek Caves are a group of twelve caves found within the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on the Seward Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. This ...
This list of caves in Arkansas includes the location and date they opened to the public. Caves. Onyx Cave (1893) - Eureka Springs [1] [2] [3]
Fears of vandalism in the recently revealed Euclataws Cave (discovered in 1963 by Jim & Delores Johnson of Nanaimo BC, but kept secret until about 1969) led local cavers to approach the provincial government for protection, and in January 1971 Horne Lake Caves became a provincial park. [2]
Wild caves are caves that have few or no provisions which make it easy for the general public to visit. Visiting such caves, if even possible, should not be attempted without extensive preparation. There are often many dangers in wild caves and knowledge, experience and special caving gear are required to mitigate those dangers.
Beside guided cave tours, wild caving, camping, hiking trails, and recreational facilities such as horseshoe pits and volleyball courts are available to visitors. [4] Tours are conducted every hour on the hour and last about 45 minutes, and are limited to 40 persons each. The caves are lighted and have plenty of handrails.
Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.
The Wild River is a river, about 63 miles (101 km) long, in the U.S. state of Alaska whose headwaters are found in Wild Lake at the foot of Tobin Mountain with a mouth emptying into the Koyukuk River near Bettles, Alaska.
Cave environments fall into three general categories: Endogean; the parts of caves that are in communication with surface soils through cracks and rock seams, groundwater seepage, and root protrusion. Parahypogean; the threshold regions near cave mouths that extend to the last penetration of sunlight. Hypogean; or "true" cave environments.