True story. In 1939 when the cave opened to the public there was a contest to decide what to name this cave, When a young kid said, “the cave is too beautiful to have a name” they chose him as winner and gave him the $250 prize money – therefore they named it Cave Without a Name.
This is a limestone solutional cave in central Texas (Hill Country!). Did you know there are 7,000 KNOWN caves in Texas?? Only 7 are open to the public. This is one of the known longest caves. Of course all of them continue to be explored but it is a risky and slow process.
This cave was first discovered when a grazing goat fell into an opening and dropped over 30 feet down. Later moonshiners hid out to make their moonshine in the more shallow parts of the cave. After that young kids explored further into the cave discovering a large room that today is used as a sort of auditorium (seats 200 people and the acoustics are fabulous).
The many different shapes are amazing – some look like draperies, bacon, eggs, clumps of grapes, and even a shaggy dog.
