Steepest Hill Climb in the World (Timpanogos Cave National Monument)

Doing the Junior Ranger program when we visit Timpanogos Cave National Monument, a cave system on Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Mountains in American Fork Canyon in Utah. The 1.5-mile trail to the cave is steep, gaining close to 1,000 feet, but paved and fairly wide, so the caves are accessible to most. The three caves of the system, one of which is specifically called Timpanogos Cave, are only viewable on guided tours when the monument is open, usually from May through September depending on snow conditions and funding. There is the standard tour going through the cave system, and an Introduction to Caving tour which teaches Leave No Trace caving and goes further into Hansen Cave.