ADDED ADVENTURE! Underground Boat Ride Comes with Your Tour Admission
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Family Adventure Park Family Adventure Park OPEN DAILY ALL YEAR Indiana Caverns opens at 9 am daily, year round. Extended hours Longest Cave during the busy season. Arrive no later than 4 pm in slow in the Midwest! Longest Cave Tour with Boat Ride season to be guaranteed a tour. Call Cave 812-734-1200 for the latest arrival time Ice Age Fossils on the date of your visit. Closed in the Christmas and Thanksgiving. Midwest! Waterfall Call or check online for more detalis. Zip Coaster Indianapolis 135 Escape Rooms 25 min from Louisville 2 hrs 15 min from Indianapolis 1 hr 30 min from Evansville Nature Trails Green Acres Dr. Cave Crawl Simulator (4.7 miles) NEW! BAT CHASER Gemstone and Fossil Mining ZIP COASTER Shiloh Rd. Louisville Corydon KY Evansville Indiana Caverns is conveniently located just outside NEW! historic Corydon, IN, 5 minutes off I-64. Just 25 BAT CHASER minutes west of Louisville, KY ZIP COASTER • Wear comfortable walking shoes and light jacket • Strollers, backpacks or large purses not allowed • Groups of 12 or more should call for reservation NEW! DIRECTIONS: ESCAPE ROOMS! • Take I-64 to Corydon Exit 105 • Turn onto State Road 135 south and go 4.7 miles • Turn right on Shiloh Road for .5 mile NEW! ESCAPE ROOMS! • Turn right on Green Acres Drive for .2 mile EXIT 105 EXIT 105 Indiana Caverns 1267 Green Acres Dr., Corydon, IN 47112 812-734-1200 IndianaCaverns.com IndianaCaverns.com One of the many features at Indiana Caverns, the ADDED ADVENTURE! underground boat ride comes with your tour admission. Offering a variety of family-friendly adventures above ground: THE BAT CHASER Our gravity-driven zip coaster will sweep you off your feet and let you soar through the curves as smooth and effortlessly as a bat in the cave! Opening late Spring 2019 ESCAPE ROOMS AT INDIANA CAVERNS There are coded hints and hidden clues but can you figure them out and escape the mine or lost temple before it’s too late? Enjoy one of our two themed escape rooms. A 30 minute or 60 minute challenge. CAVERN OF THE SABERTOOTH Get a taste of what cave exploring is like. Gear up with caver’s helmet, light, and gloves and explore our crawl. It’s 400 mudless feet on your hands and knees and a perfect mini adventure for kids. BIG PECCARY MINE Gemstone mining is more than just fun and rocks. Use a sluice box in our gently running stream to reveal gems, rubies, emeralds, pyrite, arrowheads, fossils, and more. Play, discover, identify and learn. KARST & NATURE TRAIL Our two distinct trails let you explore the terrain of the sinkhole plain. Discover more about Indiana Caverns along the way. God has been preparing Discover Gemstones and Fossils millions of years for your visit. of your own at Big Peccary Mine. Explore • Fly • Crawl • Escape • Hike • Mine • Discover Family Fun and Adventure A Million Years in the Making! EXPLORE EPIC CAVING/KAYAK ADVENTURE Descend 200’ into darkness. Climb, crawl and splash your way through the underground stream. Then ✓ TOURS continue upstream by kayak. Experience 4 hours of underground challenge in the Midwest’s longest Indiana Caverns is America’s “newest” show cave system. cave, but it’s rich in history. Its unique and diverse AGES: 14+ experiences make it a perfect destination for RESERVATIONS REQUIRED AT LEAST everyone. During the 1 hour and 30 minute tour, 10 DAYS IN ADVANCE. you’ll descend 110 feet below the surface, enjoy a 25 minute boat ride on the underground river, and learn about the history of Indiana Caverns. Experience panoramic views of Big Bone Mountain THE ICE AGE with enormous breakdown boulders. View a 35’ waterfall splashing onto the flowstone below – A large amount of bones were found when Indiana depositing minerals and continuing to slowly shape Caverns (a portion of Binkley Cave System) was the cave landscape. Uncover the cave’s origins and discovered in 2010. Radio carbon testing revealed learn about the animals that called it home as you that these bones dated back to the Ice Age, some view the Ice Age bones discovered here. 38,000 to 42,000 years ago! A wide variety of animals entered the cave before the natural entrance Travel onward to Sleeping Bear Boulevard for an into the Big Bone Mountain room closed at least underground boat trip you’ll never forget! See 15,000 years ago. blind cave crayfish along with othercave life amid Two scientific digs by the Indiana State Museum beautiful rimstone dams. Learn how caves are uncovered dozens of peccary skulls, a black bear formed, and their special role in the environment. skull, a juvenile bison, a fisher skeleton, bird bones, snake remains, bear wallows, claw marks LENGTH OF TOUR: 1 hour and 30 minutes and more. These bones are of significant importance WHAT TO BRING: We suggest a light jacket and because of their amazing condition. You’ll see some comfortable walking shoes. See FAQ on website for of these amazing fossils on your cave tour. more suggestions. “Indiana Caverns is a significant site for Ice Age animals.” Ron Richards, ISM, Indiana State Paleontologist.