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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.
