Providence Mountains SRA
Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
and Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve


Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve parking lot with the small campground beyond.

4 May 2008.

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Visitors waiting for cave tour to begin.

4 May 2008.

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Inside the caverns in the first large room.

4 May 2008.

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Cave formation within the first large room.

4 May 2008.

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Part of the tour group and California State Parks guide.

4 May 2008.

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The artificial passage between the two main cave systems.

4 May 2008.

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Discussing a huge stalactite fallen decades or centuries earlier.

4 May 2008.

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Cave formations.

4 May 2008.

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Formation inside Mitchell Caverns.

During this earlier tour, I did not have a flash camera with me and could only
make hand-held closeups of small formations spot-lighted by the cavern lighting system.

7 January 2005.

Photograph copyright © Lee Dittmann.




Mitchell Caverns.

7 January 2005.

Photograph copyright © Lee Dittmann.




Mitchell Caverns.

7 January 2005.

Photograph copyright © Lee Dittmann.




View from Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve parking lot after an unusual winter snow.
A portion of the campground is at right.

7 January 2005, ca. 1 pm.

Photograph copyright © Lee Dittmann.


This page last revised 17 September 2008.

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