{"id":13003,"date":"2013-07-19T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2013-07-19T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:08:47","slug":"subway-cave-california-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/subway-cave-california-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway Cave:  California Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/subwaycave.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OLD STATION, CALIF. &#8212; It can be 101 degrees outside on a hot summer day but just step into Subway Cave where the temperature is 46 degrees year round, and you&#8217;ll soon be wanting a jacket or sweater. Formed by lava flow some 20,000 yeas ago a river of lava covered the floor of Hat Creek Valley. While the top crust cooled and hardened, rivers of red-hot lava insulated by newly formed rock above, continued to flow. Eventually, the lava drained away, leaving tube-like caves. Today visitors to the Lassen National Forest in Northern California can take self-guided tours of the cave, which is pitch black inside &#8212; bring a flashlight! Subway Cave is open late May through October offering zero visibility. Take a dependable flashlight with you. The trail signs will direct you&#8211;if you can see them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/claustrophobic-adventures-in-california-caverns-and-caves\/\">Here&#8217;s another cave<\/a>\u00a0with a scary &#8220;womb room&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBWAY CAVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,300 feet of winding lava tube.The total\u00a0trail length is 1\/3 mile.<\/li>\n<li>Roof Thickness varies from 8 to 24 feet.<\/li>\n<li>Height &#8211; Varies from 6 to 17 feet.<\/li>\n<li>See:fs.usda.gov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLD STATION, CALIF. &#8212; It can be 101 degrees outside on a hot summer day but just step into Subway Cave where the temperature is 46 degrees year round, and you&#8217;ll soon be wanting a jacket or sweater. Formed by lava flow some 20,000 yeas ago a river of lava covered the floor of Hat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}