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Childersburg
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Alabama
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Contact details:
Telephone: (800) 933-2283
Email:
FUN@DeSotoCavernsPark.com
Web:
www.DeSotoCavernsPark.com
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About the camp and the water fun
available:
DeSoto Caverns Park has several streams and ponds to enjoy as well as a interactive fountain that will cool you off on a hot day. The park also has a Squirt Gun Maze, Water Balloon Battle, Water Dodge, Wacky Water Golf, Paddle Boats, and Gemstone Panning & Slucing.
DeSOTO CAVERNS PARK - Alabama’s BIG Cave & MORE!
Boasts of being one of the most beautiful, and historic show caves in the U.S.
Features an Awesome laser light, sound, water show in the Great Onyx Cathedral, larger than a football field, higher than a 12-story building and full of onyx stalagmite and stalactite formations. Learn of the history about the prehistoric Indians that lived and died in the caverns, Confederate Soldiers that mined gunpowder, early Indian Traders that visited, and moonshine making during probation times. Open year-round with a cave temperature of 60 degrees, the park offers campgrounds, gift shop with snack bar, scenic picnic area & pavilions near waterfalls, fountains, streams and ponds. Spend the day playing on the 21 outside attractions:
1. Water Dodge -- Move fast or you get wet as you traverse this labyrinth of pulsating motion detector water fountains!
2. Happy’s Hoops– Wacky basketball at its best. Try your luck at 10 of the most misshapen basketball hoops known to man!
3. DeSoto’s Cave Crawl Box -- Simulates crawling through a cave. This multi-twisting, turning experience takes you over, down and through a series of meandering chambers with only one way out -- and you must find it or else!
4. DeSoto’s Cave Wall Climb -- Simulates cave wall climbing in a horizontal direction. Are you surefooted enough to cross this expanse of “stepping stones”?
5. DeSoto’s Lost Trail Maze -- One of the park’s favorite attractions. Three-quarter acre dizzying dead-end after dead-end. Can you find your way to the three Indian Villages in the Maze, and then out?
6. Water Balloon Battle -- Two battle stations – Indian Teepee and a Spanish Fort. Two opposing armies. Both armed to the teeth -- only with water balloons. Prepare to get wet!
7. Panning for Gemstones -- We provide the pans, the stream and the “hidden” gemstones. You provide the ingenuity and the patience for your reward -- sapphires, onyx, rubies.
8. Bow & Arrow Shoot -- Ready, aim, shoot. Can you hit the moving targets?
9. Squirt-Gun Maze -- Much like DeSoto’s Lost Trail Maze -- only wetter. You’re armed with a high powered squirt-gun, and who knows who’s sneaking ‘round the corner...
10. Crystal Find – Crawl around in the sand while searching for the beautiful crystal rocks to fill you bag with. It’s hard to find the big ones, but worth the search.
11. Happy’s Obstacle Challenge – It’s a race through an air-inflated obstacle course. Two exact course side by side so you can challenge someone to beat you through the 11 obstacles in the 80-foot course.
12. Happy Hernando’s Super Slide – It’s the biggest, and fastest slide you have been on. It’s thirty feet tall, but don’t be scared, it is all inflated with air so you get a soft landing every time.
13. Happy’s Peddle Go-carts - On you mark, get set, go, go, go. These go-carts go as fast as you can peddle them. This is a race that involves not only your steering ability, but also you leg strength. If you get tired, just enjoy a nice ride around the track a few times.
14. Happy’s Hoppin’ Cave - Kids love to jump and bounce around in this inflated cave.
15. Wacky Water Golf – 9 holes of the wettest putt putt you have ever experienced. Each hole has two water obstacles that you have to put around. Look out, when you least expect it you might get squirted.
16. Happy’s TwinSpin – This ride will spin you and your three buddies in circles as fast as you want to pump it. Guaranteed to make you dizzy!
17. Happy’s Paddle Boats – Both young and old will enjoy paddling around our lagoon in these little one man bumper boats.
18. Happy’s Roller Racers – These are little scooter type cars that small children enjoy maneuvering around a small track using there own power.
19. Happy Hernando’s Park Express – Take a ride on Park’s small Trackless Train and tour around the grounds.
11. Happy’s Obstacle Challenge – It’s a race through an air-inflated obstacle course. Two exact course side by side so you can challenge someone to beat you through the 11 obstacles in the 80-foot course.
12. Happy Hernando’s Super Slide – It’s the biggest, and fastest slide you have been on. It’s thirty feet tall, but don’t be scared, it is all inflated with air so you get a soft landing every time.
13. Happy’s Pedal Go-carts - On you mark, get set, go go go. These go-carts go as fast as you can peddle them. This is a race that involves not only your steering ability, but also you leg strength. If you get tired, just enjoy a nice ride around the track a few times.
14. Happy’s Hoppin’ Cave - Kids love to jump and bounce around in this inflated cave.
15. Wacky Water Golf – 9 holes of the wettest put put you have ever experienced. Each hole has two water obstacles that you have to put around. Look out, when you least expect it you might get squirted.
16. Happy’s Twin Spin – This ride will spin you and your three buddies in circles as fast as you want to pump it. Guaranteed to make you dizzy!
17. Happy’s Paddle Boats – Both young and old will enjoy paddling around our lagoon in these little one man bumper boats.
18. Happy’s Roller Racers – These are little scooter type cars that small children enjoy maneuvering around a small track using there own power.
19. Happy Hernando’s Park Express – Take a on Park’s small Trackless Train and tour around the grounds.
20. Happy’s Potty Racers (New in 2003) – They look like toilets with handle bars and small wheels, but when you set on one, look out, because then you really got to go!
21. Happy’s Rock & Roll (New in 2003) – This ride is for those who like to stand on there heads. It is like a big hamster wheel that four people sit in and are buckled up so that when they rock their bodies back and forth the wheel rolls them in a 360 circle. Not for those with a weak stomach.
Follow the signs, 30 miles southeast of Birmingham down Hwy 280, to Childersburg, AL – then take a left on Hwy 76 (DeSoto Caverns Parkway) and go east for 5 miles – the Park will be on the left.
Call 800-933-CAVE (2283)
Web – www.DeSotoCavernsPark.com
Email – FUN@DeSotoCavernsPark.com.
Open Everyday Year Around – (Except Thanksgiving & Christmas)
Hours of Operation
April thru October
Monday – Saturday 9 am –5:30 pm
Sunday 1 pm – 5:30 pm
November thru March
Same hours except we close 1 hour earlier at 4:30 pm
Last tour leaves at closing.
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How to get there - information provided
by the camp:
We are located near Birmingham, Alabama. Just 31 miles southeast of Birmingham down Hwy 280 to Childersburg and then take Hwy 76 east for 5 miles - DeSoto Caverns Park Campground will be on your left.
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Whatsgoin'on - information provided by
the camp:
(Check back often for
updates)
April 5 – April 11, 2004
Easter Sound, Light & Water Show that commemorating the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is presented as part of every caverns tour.
June 5th, 2004
Grand Opening Celebration – DeSoto Caverns Park is planning a special day to open its 39th summer season. In honor of Hernando DeSoto’s visit back in 1540, all “Happy Day” tickets (includes caverns tour & unlimited use of our 21 attractions) will be only $15.40 (normally they are $29.99). We will have a number of special activities going on and we will also be cutting the ribbon on our newest attractions. Don’t miss this special day!
June 14 – July 4, 2004
Special patriotic “God and Country”, Sound, Light & Water Show presented in the Cathedral Room on every caverns tour between Flag Day and the Fourth of July.
September 25 & 26, 2004
29th Annual Fall Indian Dance & Crafts Festival – See authentic Indian dancing, both Indian and country crafts plus food vendors with all your favorite dishes.
November 1st, 2003 to February 29th, 2004
Fall & Winter Get-A-Way packages are available during these months for groups of 20 or more to enjoy a special priced, unique and adventurous Get-A-Way at DeSoto Caverns Park. With Bon Fires, Weiner Roasts, special cave tours and a choice of over 20 fun attractions, your group won’t want to miss out on this trip.
November 1 – 28, 2004
Special Thanksgiving Sound, Light & Water Show is presented on every caverns tour in the gigantic Cathedral Room.
November 29, 2003 – January 4, 2005
Christmas Sound, Light & Water Show on the birth of Christ presented on every Tour in the Cathedral Room of the Caverns.
December 2003– February 2005
Underground Classroom – Special 3 hour educational programs offered in the cave for School Groups.
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DeSoto Caverns Park Campground
5181 DeSoto Caverns Parkway
Childersburg
Alabama
35044
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