Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park, California, reopens for the season, offering guided tours and a magical underground experience after a 4-year closure.

Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park, California, reopens for the season, offering guided tours and a magical underground experience after a 4-year closure.

An iron spider and gate secures the entrance to Crystal Cave on Thursday, May 22, 2025. The marble cave, closed for four years due to both fires and severe weather, has reopened to guided tours.

That gust of cool air is what led two National Park Service employees to stumble upon Crystal Cave while fishing at a nearby creek in 1918, park naturalist Drew Gallant said to our tour group as ...

The stalactites and stalagmites of Sequoia National Park’s Crystal Cave, a sprawling subterranean wonder that’s been closed for four years, will be accessible again this summer. But to get in ...

Caption: Crystal Cave reopens after four years of being closed. (FOX26 Photojournalist Jordan Callison) The marble cave is three miles in length, and involves a half-mile walk to access the entrance.

The Crystal Cave in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California has been closed since 2023 for maintenance. The cave will reopen to public tours on May 23.

Today, the Naica Mine is no longer active, and water has again filled the crystal cavern. Boston and her colleagues took two trips to the mine, in 2008 and 2009, before the cave was flooded.

Crystal Cave in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, CA will be closed in 2022 because of road damage from fires, Sequoia Parks Conservancy announced.