page_title: Tongue River Cave
hierarchical_section_title: Tongue River Cave
caption_attribution_description: English: Tongue River Cave has been heavily impacted by thoughtless visitors with spray paint and destruction of speleothems.
context_page_description: Tongue River Cave is a cave in the Bighorn National Forest just west of Dayton, Wyoming. Historically notable for a wide variety of rare cave formations and animal species, the cave has suffered in recent decades from unrestricted traffic, vandalism, and the theft of many of the cave's speleothems. Deemed beyond preservation, the cave is now managed by the U.S. Forest Service as a "sacrifice cave".
  The Big Horn National Forest closed the cave to the public in July, 2010 to prevent the spread of White nose syndrome, however the cave has since been reopened. Registration and decontamination of clothing and gear is now required to visit the cave per Forest Order.
context_section_description: Tongue River Cave is a cave in the Bighorn National Forest just west of Dayton, Wyoming.  Historically notable for a wide variety of rare cave formations and animal species, the cave has suffered in recent decades from unrestricted traffic, vandalism, and the theft of many of the cave's speleothems. Deemed beyond preservation, the cave is now managed by the U.S. Forest Service as a "sacrifice cave".
  The Big Horn National Forest closed the cave to the public in July, 2010 to prevent the spread of White nose syndrome, however the cave has since been reopened. Registration and decontamination of clothing and gear is now required to visit the cave per Forest Order.
caption: Tongue River Cave has been impacted by visitors with spray paint and destruction of speleothems.
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