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Arizona State Parks. Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages. [1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers ...
Kartchner Caverns State Park is in the eastern foothills of the Whetstone Mountains, on Arizona State Route 90. The trailhead for the Foothills Loop Trail is in the park. Foothills Loop Trail in the Whetstone Mountains foothills Peaks. Peaks in the range include: Apache Peak, 7711 ft; French Peak, 7675 ft;
Kartchner Caverns State Park: Cochise: 4,700 1,400: 1988: Preserves a limestone cave kept in near-pristine condition since its discovery in 1974: Lake Havasu State Park: Mohave: 928 376: 480 150: 1965: Provides water recreation on Lake Havasu: Lost Dutchman State Park: Pinal: 320 130: 2,000 610: 1977
A soda straw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of caves. Soda straws in caves rarely grow more than a few millimetres per year and may average one tenth ...
Moonmilk (sometimes called mondmilch, also known as montmilch or as cave milk) is a white, creamy substance found inside limestone, dolomite, and possibly other types of caves. It is a precipitate from limestone comprising aggregates of fine crystals of varying composition usually made of carbonates such as calcite, aragonite, hydromagnesite ...
Short video showing panoramas from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U.S. national monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona that shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora. The park is the only place in the United States where the senita and organ pipe cactus ...
T. Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park. Categories: Parks in Arizona by county. Protected areas of Cochise County, Arizona.
Ventana Cave. Categories: Caves of the United States by state. Landforms of Arizona. Tourist attractions in Arizona. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Cave of the Mounds. Cave of the Winds (Colorado) Cave Without a Name. Cave-in-Rock State Park. Caverns of Sonora. Cherney Maribel Caves County Park. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park. Colossal Cave (Arizona) Cosmic Cavern.
Show cave opened. 1974 [1] Show cave length. 5,000 m. Website. Official website. A column of stalactites and stalagmites. The Frasassi Caves ( Italian: Grotte di Frasassi) are a karst cave system in the municipality of Genga, Italy, in the province of Ancona, Marche. They are among the most famous show caves in Italy .