We showed up about 15 minutes early for our tour and were eager to get started. Helmets & headlamps are a must when you are spelunking If you don’t have your own gloves, they do have some available for purchase at their gift shop. ![]() You need to wear gloves for the tour, and we happened to have our own that we were able to bring with us. It was just $30 per person, and they provided helmets and headlamps for us. Luckily, after calling the facility, they were able to get us in for a tour that same day. This one was only about 6 inches wide.Īccording to their website, the ladder tour requires reservations and needs to be booked a couple days in advance. Narrow ladders amongst stallagmites and stallagtites in Collosal Cave. Plus, you need to book those tours well in advance because of the advanced nature of the tour and the amount of time they need to plan for the guide staff. Also, we had the pups with us, and we didn’t want to leave them alone in the trailer for that long. And I just wasn’t feeling like getting stuck in a cave. We wanted to do the wild cave tour, but the video on their website shows some extremely skinny people squeezing through some tiny little passages. In case you haven’t noticed, we just aren’t the regular tour kind of people. Waiting at the entrance to Collosal Cave for our ladder tour And they have wild cave tours for intermediate and advanced spelunkers that take you even farther into the depths of the cavern on 3-4 hour tours that traverse narrow passages and let you get a feel for the total darkness of a cave. There is a ladder tour which is about 1.5 hours that takes you a little deeper into the cave. They have a regular tour which takes you on a 45 – 50 minute tour of the cave with information about the rock formations and cave history. The park offers several different options for cave tours. Colossal Cave Road, follow this east to Colossal Cave Access Road at GPS 32.055172,-110.675132, STAY on the left paved road, it becomes South Pistol Hill Road, follow this northeast to South Old Spanish Trail at GPS 32.077075,-110.64845, make a sharp right heading southeast to the 'Y' fork in the road at GPS 32.066047,-110.63785 take the left fork into the entry road and parking lot at GPS 32.062414,-110.Collosal Cave Mountain Park is on the National Register of Historic Places Colossal Cave Road, take this to GPS 32.050198,-110.705463, where you will turn right back onto E. Wentworth Road to the northeast side of I-10 where the name changes to E. Plan on spending one to two hours at the cave and one to two hours at the ranch. If you want, you can picnic or rent an entire picnic area for special occasions. You will like the horses and if you want you can go riding there is a Butterfly area, a gold panning area for the kids, a caboose, some fun western areas, a small snack bar, and a gift store. This ranch was once part of the Civilian Conservation Corps and there is a small CCC museum in addition to the ranch museum. As a researcher for SeniorCitizenLocalWeb I not only visited the cave, but also the La Posta Quemada Ranch which is part of the 'park' and a short ride south of the cave. Your trip covers only a section of the cave, and it is a decent and interesting tour that is well worth the cost of admission. Temperatures inside average 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius) year-round. ![]() The cave contains about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of mapped passageways, and was discovered by Soloman Lick in 1879. There is a story that a western gold robbery resulted in the gold being 'stored' in the cave, and there is also a story that the robbers got away from the sheriff in one of the many side shafts. It was once the home the ancient Hohokam Indians, and has sheltered people for over a thousand years. This cave just east of Tucson is a popular tourist attraction.
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