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Cave City Road, Mountain Ranch - 209-736-2708 Nine miles east of San Andreas, off Mountain Ranch road. Open spring through fall. 80 minute guided tour long a natural trail. Gem mining Sluice and gift shop. Of the many caves, California Caverns offers the greatest sense of discovery. Its passageways wind for miles, skirting delicate angel’s wings, breaking out into caverns like the Jungle Room, named for vine-like helicites formed over millions of years. Walking tours explore rooms along the trail that were once visited by the likes of Mark Twain and John Muir. Participants in the Intro-Spelunking Tour explore them on their hands, knees and stomach, squeezing through passages like "The Worm Squirm". For the gung-ho there is the Downstream Circuit Trip, a five-hour odyssey in to the cave’s most beautiful section – the cristalline Middle Earth- and across a dark subterranean lake. Due to flooding, California Caverns is best visited in late summer or fall. For more information visit the Cavern Tours Web Site
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