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Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world and second longest cave in the United States, with 220.01 miles (354.07 km) of mapped passageways as of May 2024. [3] [4] [5] It is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Jewel Cave. National Speleological Society News: 72-73. Conn, Herb (1966). "Barometric Wind in Wind and Jewel Caves, South Dakota". National Speleological Society Bulletin. 28 (2): 55– 69. Archived from the original on February 23, 2008; Conn, Herb and Jan (1972). Report from Jewel Cave. National Speleological Society News: 85-92.
Pages in category "Caves of South Dakota" ... Jewel Cave National Monument; L. Ludlow Cave; R. Rushmore Cave; S. Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns; W. Wind Cave National Park
Rock art site; [5]: 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA682 #93001054: Edgemont Rock art site; [5]: 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA683 #93001055: Edgemont Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5]: 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39FA686 #93001056: Edgemont
“Many GPS units locate the park visitor center north on South Dakota Highway 87. The coordinates for the Visitor Center are N43 33' 22" W103 28' 38". The park is about 11 miles north of Hot ...
Wind Cave is known for its calcite box work, a distinctive speleothem, and its passages that intersect with paleocave fill, indicating Mississippian-era caves that developed and then were flooded with sediment. [10] The Madison aquifer, the most important aquifer in South Dakota, is contained within the upper sections of the Pahasapa formation ...
NORA, S.D. – On a nearly invisible corner of 307th Street and 475th Avenue in the middle of Union County, South Dakota, where farmland hugs you from everywhere and the topography begins to roll ...
Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Longest cave in the world. 2 Jewel Cave: 353.69 km (219.8 mi) [4] [5] near Custer, South Dakota: Jewel Cave National Monument: 3 Wind Cave: 266.8 km (165.8 mi) [6]