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Select a tour destination from the drop down and choose a date to narrow down your search. Cancellation Policy: Canceling a tour reservation seven or more days prior to arrival results in a full refund of tour fees paid. Tour reservations canceled less than seven days in advance results in the forfeiture of all tour fees.
Tour admission fees vary depending on age, from free to $4. Tours take approximately an hour and a half. There is no heating or cooling on the tour; please dress accordingly. The tour involves 200+ stairs. No pets are allowed inside the Lodge or in any of the buildings. With a commanding view from atop a bluff, Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site is one of the best representations of early 20th Century sensibilities in the Midwest. Walk through the 31-room, 12,000-square-foot lodge built atop two natural caves by Sedalia lawyer John Homer Bothwell. Please contact the historic site at 660-827-0510 in advance for a group tour so that your needs may better be accommodated. Teachers guides are available to assist school groups planning a visit.
Minnesota state park tours take you underground, back in time, or into the future! Beginning April 1, 2015, you'll be able to reserve tickets for tours at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park and Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
Take an underground tour of the last and deepest underground mine at Soudan Underground Mine State Park, half a mile below the earth, or tour the underground high energy physics lab where physicists from around the world are trying to answer questions about the universe. Or take a caving tour of Minnesota's longest cave at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, and check out cave formations and underground pools and passages.
Learn more about tours on the DNR website.