Oregon Caves: Inside Out
Exploring the Halls of Marble
You have three choices when you visit
The Oregon Caves: Go inside or go out.
Or both.
Inside: The Caves offer an incredible journey into time, earth, and paleontology. Technically speaking, the Oregon Caves National Monument is one of the few places in our state where marble is exposed at the earth's surface, creating spectacular geological formations along passages that weave through the cave for 15,000 mysterious feet.
Put in practical terms: Wow! Venture deep inside the Siskiyou Mountains to the "Marble Halls of Oregon," where sites of spectacular imagination are dubbed Banana Grove, Belly of the Whale, Grand Column, Ghost Room and the Petrified Garden. READ MORE
Photo:
"Banana Grove" flowstone in Oregon Caves National Monument. Wikimedia Commons
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