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California sightseeing at its finest: Boat
ride, bus ride and one of California's most beautiful caverns await you and your family! A visit to Lake Shasta
Caverns is far more than just an exciting exploration of nature's underground magic,
thousands of years in
the making. It begins with a colorful catamaran cruise across the
lake, a 15 minute sail on Shasta's sky blue waters, surrounded by majestic mountain
beauty. A ten minute scenic bus ride, on one of Lake Shasta Cavern's new
busses, will take you 800 feet above the lake surface to the
cavern entrance. By all means bring your camera. Opportunities are unequaled for colorful
and
unusual photographs you will always highly prize. Until 1964, Lake Shasta Caverns were
seen each year by only a handful of hardy "spelunkers" who inched their way
through steep, restricted natural fissures to view its startling formations. Then a tunnel
was driven to enable visitors to enter the series of connected chambers from a lower
level. The caverns remain just as nature made them. Only conveniences such as paved
walkways and stairs, guardrails and indirect lighting have been added. The humidity level
is 95% and the temperature is comfortable 58 degrees constantly.
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Multi-colored
fluted columns...magnificent stone draperies in symmetrical folds...stalactite and
stalagmite formation studded with brilliant crystals...milky white flowstone deposits in
miniature waterfalls and other unusual and graceful forms. It is this complete fairyland
of nature's creations in the Caverns which has led geologists to compare its beauty
favorable to that of any other limestone and marble cave in the nation. While lore of the Wintu Indian tribe suggests the Caverns have been known since antiquity, the first
recorded white explorer was James A. Richardson, a federal fisheries employee. His claim
of discovery is still clearly legible on the wall where he wrote it that day - November 3,
1878 with carbide from his miner's lamp.
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