![]() Later that year, Lick discovered Colossal Cave and its extensive cave system. Around 1879, Solomon Lick a former Union soldier and a partner took over the ranch. The station was a stage stop approximately 22 miles east of Tucson.Ī few years later, the station became a ranch. Ramsey owned the Mountain Springs Station. Why? The cave formed by water depositing limestone, but this source has disappeared. That means formations in the Cave are completely dry, or “dead”. ![]() After millions of years of water erosion, the cave reached a “dry” state. The Rincon Mountain became the home for Colossal Cave. ![]() That is how mountains formed around what is now Tucson. Moving forward to about 80 million years ago, eruptions pushed up the earth’s surface. One of the materials from that process was limestone. Over millions of years, the water receded. It creation began about 300 million years ago.Īt that time, most of southwest America was under a large ocean. Located in Colossal Cave Mountain Park near Vail, it is just 20 miles southeast of Tucson on the I-10 Freeway.Ĭolossal Cave and the nearby La Posta Quemada Ranch make up the Colossal Cave Mountain Park.įrom a geologists perspective, the Colossal Cave system is a newcomer to our planet. I would think that especially at the end of this pandemic that any attraction would be doing all they can to draw in customers and make sure they are treating them fairly and with respect.An Amazing Place To See Colossal Cave South Of Tucson Near Vail ArizonaĪ tour of Colossal Cave is a great day trip if you live in Tucson AZ or just visiting. This was a extremely bad experience, I haven’t encountered anyone on our entire vacation that was as rude or intent on not accommodating customers as the people working today at colossal caves. Sadly this is our last day in tuscon and we decided to leave as it was clear the staff didn’t have any intent on serving us as customers. She said it would take too long to process and move up our tickets. The 10am tour left with 9 spots available and even as they were leaving we asked again if we could go and the lady at the cash register said no. The lady at the cash register told her no and that she wouldn’t do it. Another lady who was the tour guide asked if we could be added to the group and/or go on the 10:30 tour. We asked if we could be added to the group since 9 people hadn’t showed up and they said no. There were 9 empty spots out of twenty in the 10 am tour group. ![]() The tour at 10am was about to leave and they had said it was sold out. The lady at the cash register along with the gentleman were incredibly rude and acted like bullies toward us. He then told me that it wasn’t his choice to be in the Tuscon passport and he wished they were never in it. When I told them it wasn’t on their website, a gentleman who was in the office told me that there is way too much to put in their website and they couldn’t possibly do that. This is not stated on their website or the Tuscon passport site. They told us that we were supposed to purchase tickets online and then come in with the coupon and get a refund. We also tried to call and was told today that their phone have been down for three days. Yesterday we tried to order tickets online for the 10am cave tour, but there was no way to redeem our passport discount. We purchased the Tuscon passport for the local attractions. ![]() We are visiting from Maryland and had planned on visiting Colossal Caves. ![]()
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