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This is the main entrance to the caverns, you get your tickets and line up for the tour here.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray VA
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This path through the cavern, this area is brick.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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In many areas the ceiling is covered with huge multi-colored stalactites
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This rock formation is called the fish market because the layers of rock resemble fish hanging up.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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Since the lights in the caverns are on so much of the time, moss and algae grow near the floodlights.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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One of the coolest features of Luray Caverns is called dream lake. It is a shallow, calm lake fed by an underground spring. The mirror-like surface reflects the stalactites on the ceiling. The reflections make the lake look really deep but in reality it is less than a foot deep.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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Although this looks like sharp stalagmites pointing up, it is really the reflections of stalactites on the ceiling.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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Dream lake was my favorite part of the tour, here you see not only stalactites, but also some columns that go all the way down to the water. The cave isn't really orange here, the camera just didn't get the metering right. I like how it turned out though.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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The stalactites reflecting in dream lake here aren't as numerous or as sharp as in other places. Towards the back you can see the lake bottom showing through the water, and at the top left you can see a concrete walkway along this side of the lake.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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The edge of the cave wall has a ncie ribbon formation here. The lighting is strong enough that you can see that the ribbons have bands of color. You can also see some green algae growing on the constantly wet rock.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This large white column is visible from several places on the tour.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This rock formation has organic folds like a drapery, but the way some of the folds merge together reminds me of a honeycomb
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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Named after the fairy queen in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, this white calcite flowstone contrasts with the darker flowstone around it.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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The end of the long fingers of this frozen waterfall.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This frozen waterfall wraps around almost 360 degrees. It is one of the most perfectly formed natural flowstone draperies in the world.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This small curtain of rock is thin enough that you can see light through it. You can also see how there are bands of darker stone running through it.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This room in the caverns is known for its totem pole like columns. The stone appears like water frozen on a cold winter day, it almost seems to be flowing.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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One of the attractions of Luray Cavern's is an underground organ that makes music by striking rubber hammers against stalactites. The stones have been carefully tuned to produce different notes and the sounds are picked up and amplified for you to hear.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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There is a small pond, about three feet deep along the tour route that they encourage you to make a wish and throw money into. Periodically they collect the money and donate it to charity. There were a surprising number of soggy dollar bills in the well.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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This stone formation looks like two fried eggs, sunny side up. Apparently the center part was originally yellow, like the yoke of an egg, however thousands of people would rub them for good luck as they walked by and the yellow color wore off. I don't know how long ago that was, but I first went 30 years ago and they weren't yellow then either.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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Back above ground, looking from outside the main building towards the appalacian mountains.
Date: June 15, 2013
Location: Luray Caverns, Luray, VA
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