Canmore Cave Tours

09/03/2026

Check out this exciting post from National Speleological Society (NSS) Headquarters

Celebrate the first International Day of Caves and Karst on September 13, 2026! 🌎

This global day of outreach and celebration was established by UNESCO in 2025 following an initiative by the International Union of Speleology.

The success of the day depends on local activities taking place around the world. This is your opportunity to help raise awareness in your community.

Host an event, share stories of exploration and scientific discovery, talk about speleology, explain the vulnerability of karst groundwater, and invite your community to help protect caves and karst.

Whether you're hosting a cave tour, giving a presentation, organizing a cleanup, or simply sharing the importance of these extraordinary environments, every activity helps.

Find information, downloadable resources, photos, and register your event at: http://caveskarstday.org

09/03/2026

🚨 Don't Forget 🚨

September is for First Responders!

For everything you do for our communities, we’d like to return the favor with a little adventure.

Throughout September, first responders receive 20% off any of our cave tours.

Trade the uniform for a cave suit, head underground, and spend a few hours doing something completely different. No calls, no sirens—just a pretty good reason to get a little dirty. 👩‍🚒🚑👮

Thank you for all that you do. We hope you’ll join us underground this September.

Head to http://www.canmorecavetours.com and click on Events and Offers or book now using the link below⬇️.

http://www.canmorecavetours.com/tours-activities

08/31/2026

Practicing those back-to-school smiles!! 😁

08/30/2026

Hot, cold, rainy or smoky — the weather can change pretty quickly in the Rockies.

Underground? Not so much.

The Weather Network recently joined us at Rat’s Nest Cave to find out why the cave stays around 5°C year-round, and to take a closer look at the geology, formations and history found beneath Grotto Mountain.

Thanks to The Weather Network and Connor O’Donovan for coming underground with us and sharing a little more about what makes Rat’s Nest Cave such an interesting place.

Read the full article at the link below. ⬇️

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/nature/outdoors/hot-cold-or-smoky-escape-the-elements-in-this-5-c-underground-hideaway

08/26/2026

From Alberta Community Bat Program

Bats need cool, humid places to survive winter hibernation—but unfortunately, those same conditions also favour the growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome.

Nature's perfect hibernation habitat is the fungus's perfect habitat too. 🦇❄️🍄

08/25/2026

The Škocjan Caves in southwestern Slovenia are a limestone cave system shaped by the Reka River and home to one of the largest known underground river canyons in the world. The river collects on relatively impermeable rock before reaching the limestone of the Karst Plateau, where it disappears underground. From there, flowing water has gradually enlarged fractures and passages in the limestone, producing a subterranean canyon that reaches roughly 150 metres high and more than 120 metres wide in places.

What makes Škocjan particularly interesting is that the river is still very much part of the cave-forming process. The Reka flows through the canyon in a series of rapids and waterfalls, and during major floods its flow can increase dramatically. The largest space along its underground route is Martel Chamber, with a volume exceeding two million cubic metres. Its size is impressive, but it also helps illustrate just how much limestone an underground river can remove as a cave system develops.

Škocjan is also important to the history of cave science. The caves lie within Slovenia's Kras Plateau, part of the region known as the Classical Karst. The word "karst" itself comes from the name of this landscape and is now used around the world for terrain formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone. Exploration of Škocjan has been documented for centuries, and modern cave divers continue to investigate passages associated with the underground Reka River—another reminder that even well-known cave systems aren't necessarily finished being explored.

08/21/2026

08/21/2026

Sometimes the view from above ground is just as good as the one below.

Sometimes. 😉

Do you know this hike?

08/19/2026

I'm fine!
It's fine!
Everything is fine!!

😏

08/18/2026

🚨 September is for First Responders! 🚨

For everything you do for our communities, we’d like to return the favor with a little adventure.

Throughout September, first responders receive 20% off any of our cave tours.

Trade the uniform for a cave suit, head underground, and spend a few hours doing something completely different. No calls, no sirens—just a pretty good reason to get a little dirty. 👩‍🚒🚑👮

Thank you for all that you do. We hope you’ll join us underground this September.

Head to http://www.canmorecavetours.com and click on Events and Offers or book now using the link below⬇️.

https://www.canmorecavetours.com/tours-activities

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Edmonton Fire Rescue
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Calgary Firefighters
Search and Rescue Association of Alberta
Kananaskis Country Public Safety Section, Alberta Parks
Canmore Fire Fighters Association
British Columbia Search and Rescue Association
Calgary Police Service
Edmonton Police Service
Calgary Search and Rescue Association