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At Wind Cave National Park, visitors are taken to another world beneath the Earth’s surface, as they descend in the cave elevator, leaving grass prairies behind.
Wind Cave is one of the world’s longest and most complex caves. Named after the barometric winds that blow at its entrance, the cave is naturally accessible by a maze of passages. Wind Cave is famous for its unusual population of speleothems, which have formed as a result of unique weather patterns. Boxwork, a formation created by thin calcite strands forming a honeycomb pattern, hangs from walls and ceilings. Other unique formations include frostwork, cave popcorn, dogtooth spar crystals, dripstone, and helictite bushes. The deepest part of the cave houses Calcite Lake.
Wind Cave National Park, 26611 US Highway 385, Hot Springs, SD, Phone: 605-745-4600
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