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Natural Entrance Tour
This is the tour that park rangers recommend for families or people with basic physical fitness
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Natural Entrance Tour Details
The Natural Entrance Tour is a tour that park rangers recommend for families or people with basic physical fitness. You'll visit the cave's natural entrance, where mining prospectors first stumbled across Wind Cave over a hundred year ago (it was well known to local Native American tribes well before that), and you'll get a chance to hear the howling wind that passes through the hole, giving the cave its name. You'll then explore the middle level of the cave via a man-made entrance, visiting the formation known as the Eastern Star. Along the way you'll climb or descend around 300 steps, with the chance to see boxwork as well as some cave popcorn and flowstone. The tour travels around 2/3 of a mile and takes a little over an hour to complete; you'll exit the cave via elevator. The cost is $12 for adults and $6 for seniors and kids ages 6-16. Kids ages five or under get free admission. The Natural Entrance Tour runs from April through October and starts roughly ever hour and a half to two hours. During the height of summer, from early June through early August, it runs at 8:40 a.m., 9:20 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 6 p.m.
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