17) Wind Cave

Visited: Friday, August 7th, 2009

Many of the national parks we visited during the Summer of 2009 were intentional. A number of them were on the "hit" list; others were on the "consider" list. By this point in the trip, though, we were open to stopping at _any_ NPS site; thus, when we stumbled upon Wind Cave, we stopped.

And - not for the first time - I wish we'd planned for the stop. They run little tours of the cave, and I would definitely like to have done one. Still the history of the cave is fascinating, and the wildlife is amazing; we saw nearly as many bison here as in Yellowstone.