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Show June Visits to Timpanogos Cave Up Slightly This Year During June 26,761 visitors were recorded at Timpanogos Cave Na-tionla Na-tionla Monument for a slight increase in-crease over the same month in 1979 when there wer 26,171 visitors. Cave tours have been filled daily and 3,543 potential cave visitors had to be turned away during June when maximum tour capacity was reached. Because of the small size of the caves and the fragility of the cave resources, tours are limited to twenty twen-ty persons and are running every fifteen fif-teen minutes. Tours are filled on a first come first served basis on weekends and holidays. Reserva tions are required for groups of ten or more people on week days. Numerous reservations have been scheduled for July with few reserved reserv-ed tours remaining available. Normal hours for tour ticket sales are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, however, when maximum tour capacity is reached, ticket sales may be discontinued earlier in the day. Tickets are 50 cents for persons per-sons sixteen years old and over. The Visitor Center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and has an exhibit ex-hibit room and free twelve minute slide program. There is also a short nature trail, picnic area, snack stand and curio shop on the Monument. |