Longhorn Cavern State Park Trails

After our cave tour at Longhorn Cavern State Park, we walked some of the trails, going up Wildflower Walk to Backbone Ridge, back to the visitor center, up Wildflower Ridge and the Karst Discovery Trail, returning via Wildflower Walk, like a giant figure 8 (about 1.6 miles).

Lots of bluebonnets in bloom.

The Wildflower Walk goes through a wildflower meadow.

Parts of the trail were very wet after this mornings thunderstorm.

Meadow filled with paintbrush and rocks on the Karst Discovery Trail

some of the wildflowers seen along the trail today:

 

Longhorn Cavern

We drove to Longhorn Cavern State Park in Central Texas to do the Cave Tour, 90 minutes and 1.1 mile round trip. We waited our the worst of a thunderstorm before starting the tour

The entrance is through a sinkhole.

some views looking up near the cave entrance:

My photos in the cave are pretty blurry in general:

Blue light shone onto the ceiling

Blue light shone onto the ceiling 

Lots of crystals in the cave

formed by nature, relocated by the CCC back in the '30s

Blue light shone onto the ceiling

 

Blue light shone onto the ceiling