Red the Traveling Dal Visits the American Southwest

[davidd]

It's too bad people have to mark all over natural spaces like this...

Awful people to carve names / initials / whatever’s into the stones.

I agree, the degree of graffiti carving is cause for dismay. At least there isn't any spray paint graffiti... yet. Rendering the defacement somewhat less unpalatable is knowing that this tunnel - it's not actually a cave - is a man-made feature, not a natural one. It was carved as an floodwater drainage tunnel decades ago, possibly over a century ago - I have not yet found a definitive source for the original construction date beyond "20th Century" - and passes directly under a highway. Years of erosion have given the tunnel a natural, cavern-like appearance.