Although we arrived at Florida Caverns outside Marianna, FL, in plenty of time to take the last cave tour of the day, it was too late to get a camp site for the night. Because Florida is mostly flat land, my thinking was that this cavern would be mostly almost flat, too. I was mistaken! We first walked down a rather steep trail to the entrance, then down some steep steps that twisted around some formations. The rest of the tour was very nice until we had to climb back up those steps in order to get out! When we came out of the cavern, it was by a different path that was very steep! The really great part was that there were only three people on the tour with the ranger.
This park was built by CCC workers in the 1930's.
That night we ended up going about fifteen miles further west on I-10 to get a camp site at Falling Waters State Park. The next day we toured this park looking at sink holes created hundreds of years ago. The waterfall that ended up in one of these sink holes and exiting though a cave was dry because of the drought.
What you're not seeing in the above photo is the waterfall! And this is the sinkhole it would disappear into if it were flowing.
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