Waaaaay Better Than Carlsbad Caverns! - Part 2

May 23, 2009 - Timpanogos Cave National Monument shows proof of a worldwide flood.

It took me 4.5 hours round-trip to hike the trail because I had to stop several times to rest.

Admission fee was only $7 for adults - well worth it.
http://www.nps.gov/tica

Near Provo, Utah - Covering an area of less then one square mile, Timpanogos Cave National Monument, protects three interlinked limestone caverns, 1,060 feet above the floor of American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains, reached by a steep 1.5 mile trail up the rocky slopes. The hike is quite strenuous, so relatively few make the journey yet even so, in summer a wait of several hours may be necessary before entering the caves, which may only be visited as part of a ranger-led guided tour. The formations are on a much smaller scale than in other more famous cave systems such as Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico but are still very pretty, the main attraction here being the multitude of helicites - an unusual, twisting, microcrystalline variety of calcite with many delicate forms.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument is located off I-15 at the Alpine/Highland exit (exit #287). Exit the Interstate and follow State Road 92 for 10 miles as it heads towards the Wasatch Mountains and climbs up American Fork Canyon to the Timpanogos Cave National Monument Visitors Center. The trail to the cave begins at the Visitors Center.

There is a fee station located at the mouth of American Fork Canyon which charges a small fee per vehicle to visit the canyon. This fee is in addition to the ticket price of visiting the cave.




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[thekillersfan1245]

do you live in utah

[FireThunderTV]

No, I don't live there.

[davidsquall351]

That place looks Interesting.

[FireThunderTV]

It is. You would love it! I wish my camera took better pictures in the dark.

[thekillersfan1245]

i live in utah timp cave is 10 mins away

[FireThunderTV]

Cool! It's a beautiful area over there by the cave.

[lobohoops]

Carlsbad is better.

[mjnobodo]

"biggest heart in any cave", "one of two caves in the world with stalactites that grow sideways", "waaaay better than Carlsbad Caverns", "the ocean once filled this cave", "this is coral".

Yes, folks, we have proof of morons here. The limestone was formed in an ocean, but that was 65 million years ago. The caves formed well after the ocean drained and the mountains uplifted. Yes, there are formations called 'cave coral', but they have nothing whatsoever to do with ocean coral.

[IExposeMormonism]

I posted some Mormon Polygamy Caves. They do exist! In Baja is a School built of Mexican Onyx

[thekillersfan1245]

where where you visting from?