Category Archives: Idaho’s Mammoth Cave

Idaho’s Mammoth Cave Spring 2022 Season!

Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Idaho’s Mammoth Cave & Shoshone Bird Museum officially opens this Saturday, April 2nd, and every Friday – Sunday after that for spring tours until we switch to our normal summer schedule in May. Admission includes the adventure of exploring one of the largest volcanic caves in the…

An Apocalypse That Almost Happened

A stark monument of the past that still waits in pitch-black silence. When Richard Olsen homesteaded Idaho’s Mammoth Cave in 1954, he thought it would be a great place to grow and store mushrooms. At the time, however, the Soviet Union and their allies were locked in a tense, long conflict known as the Cold…