My Stay at Home Vacation

Caves, Caverns, Parks, Preserves, Monuments, Bridges, Waterfalls, Lakes, Rivers, Natural Bridges & Arches and some Castles

The United States of America

The Brook
(Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892)

It's Texas: Pick up the 2010 guide to Texas State Parks at any Texas State Park, or visit www.tpwd.state.tx.us/parkguide to view it online, have one mailed to you, or to receive free email updates about state parks.

United States National Parks

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Ghost towns by state. Most interesting.

Caves are hollow or natural underground passages, usually with an opening to the surface. Caverns are larger caves or caves with many rooms and openings.

What is a Cave... Wikipedia answers

The Mysterious Life of Caves, PBS, NOVA 

USA's deepest Caves

A spelunker is someone who is interested in caves but has no experience at all. A caver is someone who has experience and can teach the spelunker how.

All About Lava Tubes...

eNature, park finder

If you have interesting places in your own state or places that you have been, let me know about them. Send me an email... CLICK HERE...
http://dinets.travel.ru/caves.htm Assorted photos, excellent, no name I could find. But from many caves. Great text 
Desert Southwest Gallery Some extraordinary photographs
Wild Caves I was looking for wild caves in Colorado and found this page. It has a collection of wild caves from many states.
Limestone Caves, a list
The USA by State, a long old list
Blister Caves
Keep: Vesely, now forty-one, is "the epitome of the gung-ho woman caver in this country," according to the caving historian Ernst Kastning. "She is right there with the best of the men. And she can outdo a lot of them." In twenty-one years Vesely has made a thousand trips into 350 caves in fifteen countries, including the United States, Mexico, Austria, China, Papua New Guinea, and Belize. The chair of the National Speleological Society's Survey and Cartography Section, she has surveyed more than seventy-five miles of underground passage worldwide. In 1986, with her husband, Bill Farr, Vesely discovered Cueva Cheve, in Mexico. Currently known to be 5.7 miles long and 4,547 feet deep, Cheve is the second-deepest known cave in the Western Hemisphere.
Mexico Cave Exploration Project, Global Underwater Explorers
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Click on the state
USGS, Home Useable Science
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Conserving the Nature of America
U.S. Forest Service
National Parks by State
World Heritage Sites in the United States (also the world)
The Natural Arch & Bridge Society  WOW.
Keep:

http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/nws/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/photo_in_the_news.html look again...
Waterfall Listing

Photos from: Bandera Ice Cave, New Mexico- Colossal Cave, Arizona- Grand Canyon Caverns, Arizona, Devil's Hole, Nevada, Death Valley- Crystal Cave, California- Field Work Pictures
The Lives of Extremophiles, PBS, NOVA Lots of information and some good photos

Rainbows around the world
Caves and Caverns of the world   
Attractions
SCUBA Divers in Florida set a new world’s record for the longest underwater swim through cave passages. They entered Turner Sink, swam through 7 miles of passages and exited at Wakulla Springs State Park. This was the first underwater swim between the two cave systems.
NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars

Geology . com  This has some incredible photos with lots of fascinating text and descriptions.
Showcaves of the world  More showcaves of the world
Yellowstone National Park photos by Pam Rotella
Cave of the Mounds, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin (cave) Photos by PamRotella
Lake Superior Ice Caves, Minnesota WOW
Ice Caves in Nepal. It says Alaska on the intro but none were labeled Alaska.
Caving Canada
Caves of Massachusetts and Connecticut

and the photo gallery http://www.necavephotos.org/gallery2/main.php

The heart of New England... Much info.
The Historical Marker Data Base

Vermont Caves, A gallery Collection    a Photo Index (Purgatory Pit, Back Door Cave and Morris Cave)  A caving adventure, there is also a list of caves on right side of page They are: Weybridge Cave, Plymouth Cave, Carbide Cave. These sites also have items for other states in the area. Notes and journals of caving trips.

National Park and Preserve
National Monument-Historic Site-National Historic Park
List of National Parks in the United States
http://www.touristinformationdirectory.com/parks/national_park.htm#ri

Michael's World home page
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/chemhydro/LowerKane/microhabitats.htm Save this, many caves around the world with SULFIDIC KARST SYSTEMS

http://www.wvcc.net/newsItem.asp?id=97  of interest, variety of USA caves...

River Facts http://www.americanrivers.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AR7_RiverFacts

 

Bridges, historic and more
Waterfalls of the world
Of caves and odd things  The Elephanta Caves in India
A Kentucky lighthouse http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/ky.htm

and another page of odd lighthouses to use later...http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/ky.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wild_caves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Show_caves