Other activities this park offers include horseback riding, a petting zoo, camping, and more. Be sure to plan to have enough time to spend at this park because they offer more than just cave tours! Photo tours are available every third Saturday of the month.Ĭolossal Cave State Park will be sure to give you western vibes while bringing some adventure into play with their cave tours! This park spans over 2,400 acres in the desert, and its cave displays beautiful crystal formations. Photo Tours: This tour lasts 2 hours and allows visitors to take photos of the cave.
This tour shows visitors a glimpse of the founders’ discovery by only using the light of headlamps! This tour is also only available October-April. Helmet and Headlamp Tour: This tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.This tour features colorful rock formations and teaches visitors about the wildlife of the cave. This tour is only available October-April, and you will learn about the cave’s past, present, and future. Big Room Tour: This tour lasts approximately one hour and 45 minutes.This tour features the cave discoverers’ original journey, the famous Kublai Khan, and beautiful cave formations. Throne Tour: This tour lasts approximately one and a half hours.The park also offers hiking trails, camping, cabins, and a hummingbird garden. This cavern state park is also known for its incredibly thin soda straw cave formations. It homes a famous 58-foot column called ‘Kublai Khan’ in one of its cave rooms. If you’re looking for a cave tour with beautiful sights and colors, this cave is for you! Kartchner Caverns is home to a variety of cave formations such as stalactites, stalagmites, cave popcorn, columns, drapery, and more! This might be the most recently discovered cave you will ever visit. The founders of the cave initiated conservation efforts, and the State Park was open to the public by 1999. The Colossal Vail 50 Miler is the first leg in the Southern Arizona Triple 50.This 200,000-year-old cave was only recently discovered – in 1974 by cavers.
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There will be reusable cups available for purchase through UltraSignup and at packet pickup, or feel free to bring your own! In an effort to reduce our environmental impact and the number of bees hovering around open cups of soda at aid stations, this a CUPLESS event. Well-stocked aid stations, comprehensive emergency communications, excellent event swag, delicious finish line food, and much more await all who participate in the event. The course was designed by experienced members of the Tucson Trail Runners as a relatively fast trail ultra on rolling terrain with great scenery. The Colossal Vail 50/50 utilizes some of the most recently completed sections of the Arizona National Scenic Trail between Saguaro National Park-East and the foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains. The gentle terrain, expertly built trail, and wide-open vistas made the first event in 2014 an instant hit. Starting and finishing at Colossal Cave Mountain Park, the 50-mile, 55K and Half-Marathon courses feature some of the greatest high desert trail running opportunities in this part of the state. The Colossal Vail 50/50 is an adventurous ultra run on portions of the Arizona Trail near the community of Vail (24 miles southeast of Tucson). Presented by Fleet Feet Tucson Saturday, December 2, 2023
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