Located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Wind Cave is one of many attraction available for vacationers to this area. Other go to location include, Jewel Cave, Crazy Horse, and Mount Rushmore. Also, the Bad Lands are located not far to the east.

Wind cave is one of the most unique cave formations there is. It′s uniqueness comes from the fact that it is a maze cave which was created not by water flowing river style but by water seeping into multiple cracks in the limestone and trickling downward through many interconnecting passages ever enlarging these passagesways.

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4095 feet

Jewel Cave

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Bad Lands National Park

Crazy Horse

The original cave entrance was found by a youth who subsequently explored the cave by himself. Too keep from getting lost, he used a ball of string which he unrolled as he explored.

Then to exit the cave, he would follow the string back to where he entered.

Traveling through the Black Hills of South Dakota is a very beautiful and scenic drive. Many are the sights in which would require one to stop, get out the camera and take photos.