Fifth-Graders Journeyed into the Earth at Lost River Caverns

This week, our fifth grade friends on the Swain Campus journeyed into the earth at the Lost River Caverns in Hellertown, PA.

This magical place of crystal formations is an underground wonderland.  Students participated in a guided walking tour of the caverns.  During the 45 minute tour, students traversed approximately 1200 feet of paved walkways that wind and bend up and over and down ramps and steps. 

As students toured the cavern, they learned how the cavern was formed.  Lost River Caverns is natural limestone and consists of five chambers. Each chamber formed through the process of karstification or dissolving of limestone by water.

The caverns boosts a temperature of a constant 52 degrees and the atmospheres is always wet. Students had a great time exploring the cavern and especially loved the underground water features!