Little data exists as to how many people actively visit undeveloped caves in the United States. Though commercial caves such as Colorado’s Glenwood Caverns and the Cave of the Winds regularly attract more than 100,000 visitors annually, no organization or governmental agency has attempted to determine the overall number of visitors to developed or undeveloped [...]

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 [...]

On July 20, 1969, while the world watched breathlessly the coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the Sea of Tranquility, Colorado cavers were exploring another frontier here on planet Earth. In Colorado’s Groaning Cave, cavers from the Colorado, Colorado School of Mines and Colorado State University chapters of the National Speleological Society were [...]

Colorado cavers learned May 20 that the owners of the Orient Mine in the San Luis Valley of south central Colorado have decided to close the Orient Mine and caves owing to concerns regarding the spread of White Nose Syndrome. The mine and cave will be closed for public visitation during all of 2009. The historic Orient [...]

Cavers in the eastern United States are facing an interesting dilemma. In many eastern states, cavers are deciding if they should respect wide cave closure orders from the federal government put in place to protect bats from the possible spread of the White Nose Syndrome, or if they should go caving and face a stiff [...]