We love being outdoors, so it’s only natural that we would love visiting Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. If you’ve never visited Centre Hall, it sits about 15 minutes outside of State College in the northern part of Pennsylvania.
Penn’s Cave is only accessible by boat and the only tours available are guided tours by the staff. You’ll pay an admission fee at the gift shop and then head down the path and numerous stairs to get to the front entrance of the cave. You’ll get into a small engine flat-bottom boat and your tour will begin.
The guide will tell you the history of the cave and give you all kinds of information about what you see inside it. You’ll come out the other side of the cave and the boat will turn around in the lake and head back inside for the second part of your tour. I believe our boat held 15 people the day we visited and our entire boat tour of the cave lasted about 40 minutes in length.
Once your done…you’ll head back up all of the stairs again (at least 60 of them) and up the path to the gift shop. You can shop for souvenirs or grab a bite to eat from their cafe. Their gift shop has some expensive items, but I did find some reasonably priced ones too. This is also where you’ll find the public restrooms for your use.
On the property is a guided wildlife tour too. You’ll have to pay admission to take this tour. The tour is done by a company vehicle and your guided through the wildlife area. You’ll see all kinds of different animals along the way.
Well, there you have it! My “almost” Wordless Wednesday #Travel post for this week. Do you enjoy visiting underground caverns and caves?
I love the lighting in the caverns at Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park.. I know I would enjoy visiting them.
That looks beautiful! I love how it is lighted to highlight the natural beauty. We went in a few caves in Arkansas once and it was totally amazing. Love the pictures!
We live near some caves too but I haven’t been there in so many years. These pictures are really neat thanks for sharing. I would love to visit the wildlife park I love going to those.
We live near Mammoth Cave & I’d love to see it, but I’m a little claustrophobic. I’m afraid I’d get deep in there & panic, lol.
Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park seems like a great place to spend a day. I imagine you can learn a lot from the guides. Yet another fun thing to do in Pennsylvania, if I ever get there!
This looks like a lovely place to visit with my family!
I love visiting caves by boats so this sounds like a dream trip. I also appreciate in your post you mentioned the stairs. My elderly father can’t do stairs so that fact was very useful.
When I was Younger I really enjoyed them. Now I seem to get claustrophobia in enclosed in spaces!! I think the caves and Caverns are just Beautiful in some spots. Your picture on the post is so Beautiful. Love the Vibrant Colors..