Washington State

Ape Caves are part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, The USGS page, and the away . com page which has some description and history and other interesting links to area sights and one photo of the lava tube cave. Experience WA page has more history and some good photos. Under at a glance, click on the link for Ape Caves. Above the photo click on Hiking The Cave. See how the easier route is different from the difficult route. The Lewis River page has some good photos.

Gardener Cave is located in Crawford State Park. The Parks page has some description and two photos. Webshots page has some great photos.

University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections Mostly Ice Caves... Wow These are OLD photos. The Showcaves site but the ice caves I read about were not open to the public and were extremely dangerous. Scroll down the page for Washington State. The Cascade Mountains of Washington look down the page about 3/4 of the way and find Ice Caves. Most interesting. Paradise Ice Caves. Photos of Ice Caves The Restless Adventurer has some photos

The Crawl, a lava-cast tree mold, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. A very interesting but short cave. An ancient eruption of Mt. St. Helens created a lava flow that poured into a forest. Trees were engulfed and burned but the lava hardened around them first. Now the trees are gone and a void takes their place. Only rock casts remain, and this particular one was created when lava flowed over two fallen trees leaving behind a right angled tunnel molded in the shape of the two trees. The entrance was an upright tree trunk. It is designated a show-cave but not by most standards. CLICK HERE and look 1/3 down the page to find the link to more photos.

Washington State Parks A List of Washington State Parks Most charts make you pick the spot but this will let you close that window and just see a list of all the state parks. National Parks, scroll down this page to find Washington.

Natural Bridges and Arches, Curley Creek Falls- a 75 foot waterfall has formed a double natural bridge. Ruby Beach on the coast has a small but interesting double arch in a rock pillar.