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Wind Cave National Park is a national park of the United States located 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota.Established on January 3, 1903 [3] by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the sixth national park in the U.S. and the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world.
Esther Brazell was hired as a park ranger at the cave in July of 1916, making her the first female park ranger in the National Park Service. Wind Cave National Park is the sixth-oldest national ...
Highway 87 loop over Highway 87, north of Norbeck Lake at Wind Cave National Park 43°36′04″N 103°29′38″W / 43.601111°N 103.493889°W / 43.601111; -103.493889 ( Pig Tail Hot Springs
The Wind Cave National Park Administrative and Utility Area Historic District comprises the central portion of Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.The district centers on the historic entrance to Wind Cave, which is surrounded by park administrative and interpretive structures, most of which were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
Wind Cave: South Dakota: January 9, 1903: 33,970.84 acres (137.5 km 2) 607,418 Wind Cave is distinctive for its calcite fin formations called boxwork, a unique formation rarely found elsewhere, and needle-like growths called frostwork. It is one of the longest caves in the world and creates a wind as air pressure changes.
Alvin Frank McDonald (1873 – December 15, 1893) was an early American caver and tour guide at what became Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, the sixth-longest cave system in the world, from 1889 to 1893.
During the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps built miles of roads, laid out parks and campgrounds, and built three dams that set up a future of water recreation at the park. In 1964 an additional 22,900 acres (93 km 2 ) were added to the park.
These units are a subset of the areas in the United States National Park System, and nearly all participate in the national park passport stamps program. National Park System units are found in all 50 states, in the District of Columbia , and in the U.S. territories of Guam , American Samoa , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and Puerto Rico .