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Minnesota caves offer a glimpse of the underworld
Every year, as many as 30,000 visitors to southeast Minnesota turn down a country road near Harmony, pull into a wooded lot between farm fields … and drop into a cave.The big picture: Niagara Cave — named for a 60-foot waterfall thundering inside — is one of a half-dozen tourist-friendly passages into the underworld within a day's drive of the Twin Cities.What to expect: Visitors descend 200 feet below the surface and wind through a narrow, mile-long main passage on an hour-long tour that features:450-million-year-old fossils of ancient giant snails and squids.Ceilings that rise 100 feet in the cave's Grand...
Art Grows On The Trail
A crocheted version of a Turkey tail mushroom which makes shelves or brackets to produce spores above the ground and are known for their medicinal properties. (Photo by Laurie Byrne) JORDAN TOWNSHIP, FILLMORE COUNTY – The Lost Creek Fungi Hunt debuted this summer! Beginning at the Jordan Town Hall west...
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