Yes! Believe it or not there is a vary large and for the most-part secret cave within the Kissing Camels rock formation at Garden of the Gods. Until today I'd never heard about it, and the city keeps this fact away from public knowledge as best they can.
Astounding! Dave Hughes writes:
And finally the City in the 1930s trying to pretend that there never was a Cave inside the red sandstone monoliths of the Garden of the Gods! Where there is - but has been long covered up and hidden by the City, and never mentioned or marked - as it should be, by them.
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Its right on the western face of the northern tall red sandstone rock, which we call Kissing Camel Rock today.Just about 150 feet north from the entryway path, flat against the vertical wall of rock.A real honest to goodness cave, with a small opening at ground level, but opening up to a very high roof inside at least 100 feet high, and two hundred feet long, 10 to 15 feet wide in place with lots of debris on the floor, including animal bones, water dripping down into a rivulet outside after rain, but ALSO with markings on the Cave wall by persons known and unknown who came before them!
The Lawrence Party had rediscovered 'Spaulding's Cavern' after a Trapper named Jacob Spaulding who, in 1848 found it, camped inside it, and described it later.
Well the sensible pioneers saw they could use the Cave as shelter, and so camped out in it during the month they were around.
And that Party included Julia Holmes, the Bloomer Girl, an 1800s feminist who became the first white woman to climb Pikes Peak that 1858 summer. She climbed with other party members - including August Voorhees - whose name is STILL visible, carved into the cave's inside sandstone walls, along with many other later names, along with smoke from camp fires built inside. And August kept a diary. So we know the Lawrence Party was in that cave, which another later explorer, George Anderson, described as "...a cave large enough to accommodate a very large congregation of people."
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