点评:We'd been here years ago and were in the area and came back. It’s a bit of a drive away from Custer through the winding Black Hills. A pretty drive. Once there, we wind through the prairie to get to the Visitor Center. At all Parks/Monuments we see the video and tour the museum.
Visitor Center – a nice visitor center. Unfortunately, don’t remember too much about it.
View Video – interestingly, the video is in a separate building. And a rather long video (about 23 minutes). We did it after the tour. As usual, it is a good video with both historical and geological information. Of interest is the Cave exploration. A couple who had just gotten into spelunking were instrumental in exploring the Cave and discovering that it was quite extensive. Before their work, only a relatively small portion of the Cave was known.
Cave Tour – we took the Discovery Tour. Our Ranger guide was new to this Park having been here only a week. She did a good job for being here so recently. We went down the elevator to a large open room of several layers. She explained the discovery of the Cave and its formation. It’s one of the longest Caves in the world with new exploration continuing. Other than the presentation area, we did no touring of the Cave. There really weren’t any cave formations (e.g., stalactites, stalagmites) either here or in the rest of the cave for that matter.
The Cave Tour is short and quite limited. We did learn about the Cave. But we just stood around in a big room. Could have done it without the Tour. May not try this one again.
翻译:我们几年前来过这里,也曾去过附近,后来又回来了。从卡斯特开车穿过蜿蜒的黑山山脉需要一段路程。一路风景很美。到了那里,我们蜿蜒穿过草原,来到游客中心。我们去所有公园/纪念碑都会看视频,参观博物馆。
游客中心——一个不错的游客中心。可惜的是,我记不太清楚了。
观看视频——有趣的是,视频是在另一栋楼里。而且视频很长(大约23分钟)。我们是参观完之后才看的。和往常一样,这是一部很棒的视频,既有历史信息,也有地质信息。洞穴探险很有意思。一对刚刚开始洞穴探险的夫妇在探索洞穴的过程中发挥了重要作用,他们发现洞穴的面积相当大。在他们之前,人们只知道洞穴的一小部分。
洞穴之旅——我们参加了探索之旅。我们的护林员导游是新来的,她才来了一个星期。虽然她才来不久,但她表现得非常出色。我们乘电梯下到一间宽敞的多层开放式房间。她向我们讲解了洞穴的发现及其形成过程。它是世界上最长的洞穴之一,而且新的探索仍在继续。除了参观了演示区,我们没有参观洞穴。实际上,无论是洞穴本身,还是洞穴的其他地方,都没有任何洞穴构造(例如钟乳石、石笋)。
洞穴之旅很短,内容也相当有限。我们确实了解了洞穴,但只是在一个大房间里闲逛而已。即使没有洞穴之旅,我们也能参观完。以后可能不会再尝试了。