Reviews

Carmen Hall

Bottom Line Up Front: Spend the day at the cavern, pool, playground, and beautiful park grounds. Spend the night somewhere else. Rickwood Caverns State Park is a wonderful and affordable family day trip. The cavern is a stunning natural treasure. The guided tour is friendly fun and informative. It’s a moderate physical challenge with almost 400 steps in total. It is not wheelchair accessible, but a virtual tour is available for the mobility impaired. Make sure to mention if you are camping as there is a ticket discount. The gift shop is very nice and full of great souvenirs, a snack bar, and a large playground out front. And WOW the pool! Huge and clean and nice all the way around. Fed by fresh clean water from deep within the cavern, it’s always cool and comfortable. The surrounding landscape is lush and beautiful. Amongst the trees, rocks and walking trails are plenty of picnic spots with tables and grills. There are several pavilions for larger events with lots of room and plenty of parking. The campground is lacking. With less than 15 (electric and water only) camp sites, it feels as if camping was an afterthought as opposed to a feature. The sites are cramped and not well laid out. Most of the sites are sliced out of what seems like a large gravel parking lot. There is very little room between sites. Some are very small with little room for more than a small pop-up, and some are larger, but often with the power/water post on the wrong side and 20-30 feet away from the site. The gift shop (which fully supports the cavern and pool) doesn’t even offer the most basic camping supplies and seemed only moderately interested in camping business. The primitive camping area, although not as remote as it could be, is nice if you want to pop a tent.

Holly Kirchman

The cavern tour was wonderful. The caverns were amazing! Not as cool on there as they say temp-wise.

Melody Owen

My little family enjoyed our time in the caverns very much! There are a ton of stairs so we carried our two year old when stairs came up on the tour. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and very friendly. We took our time since it was just my family on the tour. The caverns are beautiful and interesting to look at. There is a lot of history the tour guide talks about and shows you such as small fossils in the walls you can see and touch. You can't bring a stroller in the caverns, there are too many stairs and a couple of tight squeezes. Tickets to the cavern can be purchased in the gift shop. There is parking near the cavern and large parking lots near the gift shop. We also played on the old school playground! Brought back memories for me and my husband. Restrooms of course if needed. If interested they do have camping grounds and a pool when in season. Cavern prices: 12 years and up $19, children 5-11 is $9, under 4 is free. Final note, check beforehand when cavern tours are, we didn't check and waited for over an hour for the next time slot, that is our fault. Anyway, go enjoy and have fun learning some new things.

Marcy J

Rickwood caverns was amazing! Mike was our tour guide and he was so knowledgeable and friendly. He answered all questions that we had and gave great stories. He kept a smile on our face and even made the 110 steps at the end seem not so bad by talking to me during it. The manager was extremely helpful and accommodating. We camped there over a weekend and loved every bit of it.

David Hudson

A great park for a variety of activities. There is a nice campground with water and electricity hookups (and maybe sewer hookups too, but I'm not sure about that). There is a nice picnic area and a great swimming pool. There are trails to hike on with several geocaches to find. And a very nice tour through the caverns which takes about an hour. And if you just want to relax, you can do that too.

Amber Vance

Beautiful place