About
Length (round trip)1.6 mi
ShapeOut-and-Back
DifficultyModerate
Elevation gain250 ft up
Typical time1 hr
TrailheadCedar Sink, Highway 422
SurfaceForest path with stairs and boardwalk into a sinkhole
Best seasonThe cave is 54F year round. Surface trails are best in spring and autumn; summer is hot and humid and the ticks are bad.
DogsLeashed / limited stretches
What you'll see 🌄 Big views🌼 Wildflowers

Down into a huge collapsed sinkhole where an underground river appears and vanishes again.

Tips
The clearest lesson in karst geology in the park - you walk down into a hole in the landscape and find a river at the bottom. Superb spring wildflowers. Stairs and a boardwalk at the bottom.
Location

Cedar Sink, Highway 422

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