<< Our Photo Pages >> Pluto's Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The West
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Pluto's CaveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 77.546 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Mount Shasta, CA Nearest Village: Weed, CA
Latitude: 41.566692N Longitude: 122.266931W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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freedomandpeace visited on 8th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 This is a very spooky cave. It did not feel good for me to go too far into the cave, although I did go alone too. The next day I went to other lava tube caves that are part of Lava Beds National Monument (highly recommended), and they did not have the spooky feel this cave had. I felt very unwelcome, and I reached a point where I did not feel I should continue any further. It felt like an energetic barrier. The darkness of the cave beyond where I stopped looked like a black hole, or a black abyss, and not a place I felt good going into. So I turned around at that point. This is supposed to be a sacred site in the new age circles, but I certainly did not pick up on friendly energies here, like I have felt at other sacred sites. Not sure what to make of it. I wonder if any other people have had the same experience as me, or maybe they are just not as sensitive. It was an intense experience to visit this cave. Not sure I will be back.
Native Americans have used the cave as a camp shelter while hunting or on a pilgrimage to sacred springs on Mount Shasta. The first westerner to find the cave was Nelson Cash in 1863, who was looking for stray cattle. Cash gave the cave it's name after the Roman God of the Underworld. Which is easy to imagine his inspiration when standing in the most wide and tall portions of the lave tube, one could easily see this as an entrance to the Mythical Underworld through which a Titan like Pluto could walk through.
The first time i went to Pluto's Cave i was greeted by a large white owl flying out of two of the skylights as we advanced into the cave. I later found an 1863 newspaper article online about the cave which spoke of the nests of large owls. These beautiful birds of prey are a long lineage of guardians to this cave for far more than the 150 years of historical documentation.
Pluto's Cave is approximately one and a half to two miles in length between each impassable collapse. Most of the cave is beyond the few skylights near the entrance, so bring a really bright flash light (or flood light) because just a couple hundred feet past the last skylight it becomes so dark you can barely see your feet and the ground in front of you with a run of the mill D battery flash light(take extra clothing as well).
To reach Pluto's Cave leave Weed, CA on HWY 97 heading east for approx. 12 miles. Turn left on road A12 go about 3 miles and look carefully for the dirt road entrance on the left, marked only by silver lettering (of Pluto's Cave) on a nearby telephone pole. A short drive down the dirt road to the parking area where there is a picnic table, a little shade, and a short but rocky walk to the entrance of Pluto's Cave.
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