Cascade Caverns

Central Oklahoma Grotto Fun Trip
July 30 - Aug. 1, 2004

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After a bit of a drive...Cascade Caverns Park - Bathroom Break! E-GAD!! The filthiest I've been to since a five day concert! (and it goes downhill from there!) You come in here and you start feeling the Tourist Trap! Take the money but don't improve your cave... sigh... Too late...the people that own the cave already ruined the cave... no need to post a warning.
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It does have some nice stuff But is very ill kept! The wires are all exposed with no attempt to hide them from the tours. And the lights are kept on all the time. Thus... pretty lush plant life grows.
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The guide even bragged that this was the only cave that had such extravagant growth (I hope so!!!!) Oh...and look...the same band of lights I use on my house during Christmas!!! Every cave should have some of these! Oh yeah... don't forget the two inch flexible pipe that snakes under your feet the entire trail!
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Pumping from one end of the cave to the other it was right smack in the middle more than half the time... I guess they are unique in that too! And there were only about 40! people on our tour... there were times they all couldn't fit into the room where the guide was talking. One Picture....many words (kinda like.. Oh Lord...what did we get ourselves into??)
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Look out where you step Lil... Watch your head Jon, you're not wearing a helmet! But it was a wet cave!! Lots of water dripping and being pumped out onto the trail. One neat thing about the cave was the ceiling!
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Very cool water patterns created when the cave was being created. And then the advertised 100 foot waterfall..nice, but the one place where light would have been nice it was absent.... sigh... I agree with you John... Let's get out of here!!

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