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The park is also home to the beautiful Mitchell Caverns, a diverse habitat full of limestone cave formations and unique wildlife - everything from bats to tiny pseudoscorpions and more. We invite you to visit this iconic state recreation area.
Mitchell's Caverns are a trio of limestone caves, located at an elevation of 4300 ft. (1311 m), in the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area in Southern California.
Mitchell Caverns is one of the most spectacular wonders of California that lies underground at the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area. The Mitchell Caverns were formed from limestone when this area was the bed of a shallow sea.
The Mitchell Caverns, within the Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve, are three solution limestone caves, only two of which are open to the public, [2] located on the east side of the Providence Mountains at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,300 m), within the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area.
The State Parks service and California Conservation Corps have maintained a safe, easy-to-navigate trail that curves around the mountain and into Mitchell Caverns. While outside, you learn about the history of the caverns and the animals and plants who live on the desert-like mountain.
The Mitchell Caverns in Providence State Park are one of the only show caves in Southern California. They finally reopened after being closed for over five years, and if you haven’t explored them, do it now. The caves are only accessible via a guided tour that happens two days a week.
The fascinating ranger-led tour takes you through two of Jack Mitchell’s caves, El Pakiva (The Devil’s House) and Tecopa, for a better-than-Disney imagined trail through geology’s artwork: stalactites that flow from towering “ceilings,” waterfall-patterned flowstone, stalagmites under your feet and even a cave-dwelling animal or two.
Mitchell Caverns are located in California's Mojave Preserve approximately 80 miles east of Barstow and 60 miles west of Needles. They are 16 miles north of highway 40 with a brown...
Mitchell Caverns consists of three basic caves called El Pakiva, or the Devil's House; Tecopa, named for one of the last chiefs of the Shoshone Indians; and the deep and vertical Winding Stair Cave.
Mitchell Caverns, located in the heart of the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, is a popular tourist attraction. Spectacular and intricate limestone formations found include stalagmites, stalactites, helictites, lily pads, draperies, curtains and popcorn.