TIMPANOGOS CAVE NATIONAL MONUMENT

FACTS

• There is actually 3 caves at this National Park. The Hansen cave being discovered first in 1887 by Martin Hansen. Timpanogos Cave wasnt found until 1915 and the Middle cave discovered in 1921.
• They had to build man made tunnels to connect all 3 caves
• Became a National Monument in 1922
• Temperature inside the cave was 42 degrees
• Its a 1.5 mile hike up to the caves with a 1,092 ft elevation gain

i liked how this tree was growing

chipmunk in the trashcan, if he wasnt so snippy I wouldve tried to get him out

Natural enterence to Hansen Cave

Hansen Cave Lake

Flowstone

shows you how big these things are


helictites

this is over 500,000 years in the making
these are orange from the iron the water picked up in the soil

original natural enterence to Timpanogos Cave

American Fork Creek

BRIDAL VEIL FALLS

Bridal Veil Falls is a 607 ft tall waterfall in the south end of Provo Canyon. An aerial tramway service to the top of the falls was built in 1967 and the small, six-passenger tramway functioned as a recreational attraction taking you to a resturaunt on the cliffs until an avalanche destroyed the tram in early 1996. (This was the second major avalanche to destroy the tram. The tram and visitor center was rebuilt after the first avalanche, but after the second disaster, it has remained as it is today.) When the tramway was in operation prior to the 1996 avalanche, it was heralded as the "world's steepest aerial tramway"

provo river

the falls
the abandon resturaunt
you can see the resturaunt to the right of the falls on the cliff
bottom part of the tram dockcables from the tram