According to the National Park Service, the cave system is “still being explored with no end in sight.” While Wind Cave ...

Wind Cave National Park may not be the only national park with a cool cave, but that doesn’t make it any less special. “I think the caves are a little bit like people,” said Tom Farrell, chief of ...

Wind Cave, part of Wind Cave National Park. (Courtesy of National Park Service) HOT SPRINGS — Wind Cave in South Dakota’s Black Hills is now the sixth longest cave in the world as explorers have ...

Since the dawn of time, humans have been bound to the cave. It's been our home, our tomb, our place of revelation. The prophet Muhammad met the angel Gabriel in a cave; Zeus nursed in a cave; and ...

We were plunged into total darkness. Initially it felt as if the pitch black was deadening all of our senses. I first began to hear the faint rustling and murmuring of the other visitors. Then, slowly ...

Aside from drawing more tourists, not much has changed at South Dakota ’s above-ground attractions such as Badlands National ...

But now, more than 110 years after Wind Cave was established, some 200 four-legged homesick former residents — a large herd of elk — may be changing how the National Park Service manages America’s ...

Never made the trek up Pass Mountain to Wind Cave, one of the East Valley’s most popular hiking destinations? Usery Mountain Regional Park will offer a guided morning hike up the heavily-used trail on ...