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If you are traveling in North America this summer, caverns can provide a unique educational experience for the whole family. In addition to creating a cool underground diversion away from the summer sun, the beauty of caverns is both exquisite and amazing. Rock formations and living things that can be seen underground are unlike anything seen on the surface.

Exploring caverns can also provide much needed exercise for families who are embarking on long road trips. Guided tours and other amenities are available for nominal cost at many locations throughout the US. Often museums and gift shops are an added attraction.

Kazumura Cave in Hawaii is a volcanic lava tube and the deepest cavern in the US at 3,614 feet. Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico can claim the deepest cave in the continental US. Calrsbad’s Lechuguilla cave is 1,604 feet deep. These large cave systems have lots to offer but caverns need not be big to be fascinating and spectacular.

The Carolinas, Georgia, Arkansas, Virginia and other southern states provide beautiful caving expeditions in their legendary forested hills. The northern forests of the US and Canada also have some of the most spectacular caverns in North America. Western desert caverns can provide a history lesson about the various people who inhabited them. Cavern exploration has something to offer every family member.