
★ Wonders
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Worth making time for
Wind Cave sits in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, about an hour from Rapid City. It holds the world's largest concentration of boxwork, a rare honeycomb patterned calcite formation found almost nowhere else. The cave opens only on ranger guided tours, from the Natural Entrance Tour past the Popcorn Room to the crawl by headlamp Wild Cave Tour. Summer is the time to go, when every tour runs daily.

Wind Cave holds about 95 percent of the world's known boxwork, a honeycomb patterned calcite formation you will not see like this anywhere else.