BENSON, AZ — Just south of Tucson lies one of Arizona’s hidden gems—Kartchner Caverns State Park, an active limestone cave system known for its rare, pristine formations and year-round underground ...

While Arizona is famous for its stunning landscapes and dramatic rock formations, some of the best things to see here are underground. Arizona has numerous famous caves — some readily open to the ...

Scientific findings from the subterranean world will see the light of day Saturday during a Cave Fest event at Kartchner Caverns State Park. Presentations - which are free to visitors who pay a ...

Kartchner Caverns State Park will resume cavern tours on a limited basis starting June 1. Though the park and campground have remained open during the new coronavirus pandemic, cave tours were ...

PHOENIX — You might have seen the 2005 horror film “The Cave,” where a group of adventurous scientists explore the deep, nether regions of a cave and discover a new species. University of Arizona ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — For hundreds of thousand of years the caves in the limestone foothills of the Whetstone Mountains remained undiscovered. That all changed in November of 1974. Randy Tufts and his ...

BENSON - As sightseers shuffle down paths deep inside Kartchner Caverns, a group of scientists works above them, shooting electrical pulses into the ground. James Fink, a geophysicist for ...

BENSON, Ariz. — Deep inside the dark, damp caves of Kartchner Caverns State Park lies something that sounds more suited to a fairy tale than to a rock formation. The so-called Big Room holds the world ...

BENSON, Ariz. (AP) - Kartchner Caverns, the Arizona’s state parks system’s underground flagship attraction with formations that have been growing for thousands of years, is no longer a teenager.

Kartchner Caverns State Park, a spectacular limestone cave in southeastern Arizona that opened to tours four years ago, will open its biggest room yet on Tuesday. Measuring about 400 feet by 240 feet, ...