• Leman Caves 1

    April 9, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F

    Head underground in Great Basin National Park to visit the spectacular Lehman Caves. Passageways in the marble rock are filled with beautiful speleothems including stalactites, stalagmites, popcorn, and cave bacon. The cave has amazing cave shields and is a world-class example of condensation corrosion, a process that is still enlarging the cave.
    Lehman Caves is also home to some endemic species (not found anywhere else in the world), such as the Great Basin cave pseudoscorpion and the Snake Range millipede. It also houses a maternity colony of Townsend's big-eared bats.
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