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Kartchner Caverns
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles of passages. The park is located 9 miles south of the town of Benson and southeast of Tucson. The park was founded to preserve the cave's unique features, including its rare boxwork formations. The park offers cave tours, camping, picnicking, and hiking. The cave is a "live" cave, which means that formations are still growing and changing. The temperature inside the cave is a constant 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius). The cave is home to a large variety of cave life, including bats, cave crickets, and cave spiders.
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User Reviews
Margaret Brandwein
Site 44 (ours) was very unlevel/ 6” leveling ramps still was not enough! Website should apply this info on each space; take the time to do so! We left early because of this and no refunds! Website gives no idea if level or need super high lifters; awful! I have vertigo so it was not fun. Unless you personally go to rv park and chk each one, you may get one like ours that is more than 6” off! Be prepared. Campsite is clean, shower water is hot but hubby says in mens bathroom toilet paper rolls are in a “ weird place so legs are catiwompass while sitting”…. Odd they would do that. $50 a night tho makes it hard to wanna go back. Nice views of mountains and they have a loop for hiking so that is nice. The unleveled lots make this hard to come back to not knowing if you choose online a decent spot… in pics they all look level. Beware! No one expects more than 6 inches!!!!! Also do not drink the water or use for cooking. Had brown , gray water with sediment come out. Use bottled water for cooking or drinking or coffee!
Rick
This is a nice park, plenty of hiking trails, not far from tombstone and Sierra vista. Cave is cool but not much else to do except hang out . Spots are big and lots of privacy so you can let it all hang out if you like, after dark gets interesting careful where you look you might get an eye full, just because Rv windows are tinted real dark doesn’t mean you can’t see through them at night especially if your inside lights are on. So bring your cards or Yahtzee or board games. Leave your inhibitions at home. No judgement here.
Anita Murcko
Majestic & otherworldly! We were extra fortunate to get spots on the monthly photography tour. Even the visitors center is beautifully designed, starting with the fascinating discovery and development story in a lovely amphitheater. Each staff member was genuinely proud of their part in the visitor experience - warm, friendly and knowledgeable. Can’t wait to return and share this special place with our visiting family and friends!
Marion Browne
Great experience on our cave tour today! Our guide Rich was knowledgeable and funny! It was great to learn about the history and geology of the cave system. We’re planning a trip back when we can visit the Great Room (closed this time of year for the bats). Also enjoyed a short walk on one of the trails. Beautiful area!
Jerry Dunlap
We were here 2-14-2014. We could not take pictures of the cave itself. Something to do with the flashes, as I remember. Absolutely a beautiful cave. A must-see cave for anyone. The Big Room Complex I believe was closed because of the bats, I think.