We visited Wind Cave National Park again; the previous time, back in 2023, the elevator to the cave was broken, so we were unable to do a tour (but the surface stuff is good too).

This time we were able to do a cave tour: the Garden of Eden tour. This is a one-hour, quarter mile tour (their easiest option), featuring boxwork, frostwork, flowstone and cave popcorn.

Cave tours:

Cave map:

Heading into the elevator, about seven people at a time:

Waiting for everyone in an airlock at the bottom of the elevator:

Exploring the cave:

Back to the elevator:

Model of the cave tours in the visitor center:

Conditions at the cave mouth; neglegible wind:

The little hole of wind:

Not the most impressive cave, but still more interesting than Mammoth Cave.