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Timpanogos Cave National Monument
For Kids
 
A gold-tone junior ranger badge rests on top of a green and white junior ranger patch with an embroidered cougar image.

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Earn your choice of a Junior Ranger badge or patch by completing the Junior Ranger Activity Book.

From May to early September, the monument offers a Junior Ranger program every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at the visitor Center. Programs are designed to allow kids to explore the cultural and natural history of Timpanogos Cave National Monument and complete requirements to become a Junior Ranger. You don't have to be a kid to enjoy these programs, anyone is welcome to attend.

Find a program to attend:
Schedule of Events

 

How to Become a Junior Ranger at Timpanogos Cave:

  • Get your free activity book
    • Pick up a copy at the Visitor Center, or
    • Download a copy (16 pages) (654KB .pdf)

  • Complete the activities for your age group

  • Attend a Ranger-led program
    • Cave Tour
    • Junior Ranger Program
    • Evening Program

  • Pick up litter

  • Return your book for a Ranger to review
    • At the Visitor Center, or
    • Can't finish today or completing your book from home?
      • Circle your choice of a badge or patch,
      • Include your return address,
      • Mail it back to the monument (address on the back of front cover).
 

Explore, Learn, Protect

Explore, Learn, Protect
This is a song about and for Junior Rangers.

Credit / Author: Jeff Wolin

Download Original File: flfo-Explore,-Learn-and-Protect.mp3 (2468 KB)
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Close-up view of delicate, white, and spikey cave frost formation found in Timpanogos Cave.
Virtual Field Trip
Take the hike to the caves and explore inside.
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Two girls work together on an excavation.
Dig In!
Archeology for kids allows you to dig into the past and explore a future career.
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Helictite

Did You Know?
Timpanogos Cave is known for its high concentration of helictites - a spiraling cave formation that seems to defy gravity. Helictites are formed when calcite crystals and dissolved impurities are forced out of a tiny central canal in the helictite by hydrostatic pressure.

Last Updated: December 29, 2011 at 14:40 MST