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Shoshone Ice Caves in Idaho are lava tubes with a collapsed roof for an entrance. The cold trap effect makes it perfect ice cave. The cold air flowing down into the cave during winter freezes all water entering the cave through fractures, and the temperature inside the cave is constant.
This is a single tube cave that is almost straight and over 300m long. The passage is up to 12m high and between 3 and 10m wide. Visitors walk on a wooden bridge above the thick layer of ice that covers most of the cave floor. Shoshone Ice Caves end at a wall of ice.
There are statues at the cave that make it a bit touristy. These include a green dinosaur with a cave man sitting on its neck, a 3-story high Chief Wasakie statue and a bull at the museum entrance. Concrete sculptures of early natives and cave men stand along the path down to the cave. Kids usually like them. |
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