Lehman Caves Visitor Center — Attraction in Ely

Did the Grand Palace 90 min tour at 9am this morning and it was a steal for the $10 cost! The tours for the day were sold out because of the Astronomy Festival, so I would definitely recommend calling ahead and securing your tour with a res.

The cave itself is just gorgeous with some spectacular column formations and shields! This tour takes your through several portions of the cave, my fav being the inscription room where you can see smoke markings from early visitors, there was a penciled signature from 1906 and one heading out from 1902!

The formations are just incredible in this cave and you are able to stop and take pictures and inspect the formations (just remember not to touch them as this cave is stil active and growing). You can bring in a camera and a flashlight, but not anything else.

Our ranger guide was highly informative and I had fun assisting her by being the "caboose" in our large group to make sure everyone stayed together and we kept the group moving to stay on time.

Highly recommend as this is a...

I highly recommend visiting this park because there is this amazing cave system! This park has the most shield formations anywhere in the world, which were explained to me by a ranger to be very unique formations. I did the hour and a half tour and I didn't purchase tickets ahead of time. They have a limited number of tickets to purchase as a walk-in but you have to get to the ranger station as soon as they open because people do line up. I guess I count myself lucky because I got there 5 minutes after opening and got in line and was able to secure a tour. It wasn't the palace tour which is their 2-hour tour, but it was the next best thing! If you're traveling in the area definitely make this part of your stop. This is one of the most quiet and peaceful national parks I've...

This review is for the brunette woman ranger who decided not to provide us any information. We asked about the cave tours and she basically blew us off, telling us we needed to make a call to get a reservation and never mentioning once that we could just get up early and get on a tour, as some spots are reservable and some are first come first serve. Because of this, we didn’t do the tour. Informative rangers like her could easily be replaced by computers, so it would be nice if they took their job, one which many folks would be happy to have, more seriously and just took the time to inform visitors of their options. It wasn’t even like it was busy, she just didn’t want to talk to us. :( Otherwise, Great Basin National Park was a lovely, dark sky...