Lava Beds National Monument
We passed by Lava Beds National Monument during our stay in Oregon. For a $15 one-week entrance fee we could explore more than twenty caves! Inside one of the caves my family and I turned off all our flashlights and experienced a few seconds of "total darkness". We couldn't even see our fingers a few inches from our face! After that experience I began to regret reading Tom Sawyer stories before the trip. Caves Inside Golden Dome my four siblings and I actually decided to take a shortcut and ended up crawling on our stomachs! Thankfully we all had our helmets on and avoided a couple sharp areas. The rocks in Hopkins Chocolate Cave really looked like chocolate! Brown...I could smell the aroma of deliciously gooey chocolate! I'll have to try Rock Chocolate sometime. :) Hopkins connected to Juniper Cave . We got lost in the middle and were relieved to see an opening on top of the cave. A tree trunk ...