For many visitors to scenic Williams Canyon, north of Manitou Springs, Colorado, the aging bronze plaque was a curiosity. Erected on the Ordovician-age Manitou limestone wall near the locked Williams Canyon gate, the plaque commemorated Henry Truman Williams, a New York City author and editor, who died in 1915. Sometime between June 22 and June [...]

Although US Forest Service officials seem all but certain to issue a blanket cave closure order for all caves and inactive mines on Forest lands in the Rocky Mountain region owing to concerns about the spread of the White Nose Syndrome fungus, Colorado’s three commercially-operated caves will remain open for business. Cave of the Winds [...]

This April, one of the first public attractions of the Pikes Peak region is celebrating its 135th anniversary. Opened to visitors to the new resort community of Manitou in early April 1875, Mammoth Cave offered an opportunity to see a pristine Colorado cave, previously unknown to even the Native Americans who frequented the area’s bubbling [...]

Cavers and rescue personnel from throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West are encouraged to attend the April 10-11, 2010 Cave Rescue Seminar at Colorado Springs. The seminar includes a full day Saturday classroom and exercise session at the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department and a full day mock rescue in one or more of [...]

The Williams Canyon Project of the National Speleological Society will be meeting on January 31 at the Cave of the Winds. New Project Chairman Rick Speaect is seeking items for discussion by the board of directors for the meeting. One new topic will be approval of a new Cave of the Winds board member. Director [...]