![]() ![]() The best part about coming here was seeing the smiles on my children’s faces and the look of wonder. I was nearly transformed into a psycho, doomed to lurk in the crevices of the cave for the rest of my life, screeching like an injured jack-rabbit!ĭid you watch the Land of the Lost when you were a child, during Saturday morning cartoons? Can’t you just imagine a Sleestack appearing from the recesses of these cave walls, hissing and gently flinging their darts? It was fun though to stay put till I could no longer hear the tour guide in the distance, but just as my thoughts were turning wacky, induced by the hypnotically odd place I had put myself in, it came to me, “Oh my! I better catch up so I don’t get lost!” Whew! That was a close one. I had to secretly lag behind to get one of these, laying on the ground so I could rest my camera for a steady shot in such low light. ![]() I have very few good pictures from inside the cave due to the pace of the tour and all the other people. The cave entrance and gift shop can be seen in the below picture, half way up the mountain. I took the below pictures form the parking lot. And there’s more, this Mountain Park is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! ![]() And I would not have believed such a thing could happen if it were not for the fact that my wife and I were attacked by a mad mole in the Sacramento Mountains.Ĭolossal Cave Mountain Park offers not only a cave, but a cave with legend and lore of lost treasure, cowboy outlaws, Indians and ghosts. The show is about bunny rabbits gone murderously mad. Other movies were made here (eighteen in all) like the wonderful science fiction flop below which has apparently reached the dizzying heights of a cult following, as you can actually catch this flick at a Tucson, AZ movie theater to this very day it was playing there on the same day we visited the cave. The below diorama and others on display in the park’s facilities were used in the movie to tell of the Colossal Cave bandit legend. You know you’re having a View-Master moment when you feel like a child again, filled with wonder and awe.ĭisney waved their fairy wand of approval and pixie dust over this place in 1974 when they brought production crews here to film a movie called, The Outlaw Cats of Colossal Cave. Not a Kodak moment, mind you, there’s a big difference… The latter can be had with any ol’ picture perfect scene, but the former requires a magical mixture of: novelty, intrigue, mystery, beauty, color, light, sound and depth that far exceeds the typical occasion. Colossal Cave Mountain Park, even its name has an irresistible allure, an “Escape to Witch Mountain” kind of mystique, which suggests it’s capable of producing the Holy Grail of sight-seeing memories, in other words a genuine View-Master moment. ![]()
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