20th Annual Discovery Days
June 22 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
DISCOVERY DAYS
Celebrating 94 Years of Discovery!
Saturday & Sunday June 22 & 23, 2024
Special Ticket Prices: $9.40 for 94!
ALL TICKETS!
Panning for Gems Available at an Additional Charge
Celebrate 94 years of discovery and the Dunlavy family legacy at Lincoln Caverns. Once a year, guests enjoy special historic tours and stories of discovery!
PLUS, free workshops and children’s activities all day long! Visit our website for a complete schedule of activities. Fun for the entire family!
DISCOVERY DAYS 2024 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Historic Interpretive Tours of Lincoln Caverns & Whisper Rocks PLUS Free Workshops & Activities for the whole family!
11:00 AM Intro. To Speleology – This interactive PowerPoint presentation features the story of how caves form, plus information about types of speleothems, cave life and cave conservation.
12:00 PM SPACE ROCKS – Learn about our four terrestrial (rocky) planets and what they have in common, then why earth is unique and different from other planets in our solar system.
1:00 PM CRAZY ABOUT CAVES – With an experiment and cave craft to take home, learn how caves form and the speleothems (formations) they contain.
2:00 PM History & Development of Lincoln Caverns – Personalized presentation, featuring the history of three generations of discovery, education and conservation of Lincoln Caverns & Whisper Rocks.
3:00 PM JUNIOR CAVE EXPLORER – Crawl along with us to learn ‘caving basics,’ plus basic rules of safe caving with an intro to cave conservation, AND fun with the Caver’s Squeezebox!
4:00 PM WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP… Explore our FUTURE! Games, activities & hands-on experiments demonstrating the importance of protecting our groundwater, drinking water for 50% of Americans.
PLUS!! From Noon to 3:00 PM
Meet & Greet with our mascot ECHO THE BAT!
You are invited to hike our nature trails, check out Warrior Ridge Campground, use our picnic facilities, pan for gems, and browse in the area’s largest gift shop – Raystown Rocks! We have the largest selection of rocks & minerals in central PA! Be sure to tour the Lincoln Learning Center and find out about all the programs Lincoln Caverns has to offer.
