Laurel Caverns, Fayette County...and a Few Links to a Colorado Trip

For Father's Day, my younger daughter took me to the Laurel Caverns on the ridge just east of Uniontown.

I brought my kids here when they were little, but it was fun to come back.

None of the chambers in the Laurel Caverns are huge, and there are not many crazy rock formations, but it's a fun place to walk all the same.  

You can take a quick 35-minute tour, or a longer 1-hour tour, or several different tours where you go scrambling over rocks and down pitch-dark tunnels with a headlamp.  We did the 1-hour tour.

The guide said the caverns have been a state park since last year.

The colored lights added depth to the place, drawing the eye to far-off crevices and chambers that it would otherwise miss.

Some rooms, like this one, are off-limits.  You can look, but you can't enter.

One of the larger chambers.  For scale, see the sawhorse-style railing at the opposite side, blocking entrance from that direction.

Same chamber.

This unpresuming little hole in the ground is the original cave entrance as it was discovered by John Delaney in 1794.

The westward view from the parking lot.

A RECENT COLORADO TRIP:

For some pictures of the White River National Forest in Colorado, click HERE.

For the true ghost town of Dyersville, Colorado, click HERE. 

For the mountain known as Prospect Hill, click HERE. 

For Boulder and the Flatirons, click HERE.