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Laurel Caverns in Fayette County, the show cave operated by David and Lillian Cale and the Laurel Conservancy, has been proposed as a new state park as part of Governor Josh Shapiro’s forthcoming state budget proposal. The MAKC and local cavers are truly excited by this possibility! In addition to being a long-time friend of MAKC and a life member, David Cale has been a strong supporter of the local caving community. While this process may take some time to come to fruition, it could not happen to two nicer people than David and Lillian!<\/p>\n

Here are a few links to some of the news stories that have made the rounds:<\/p>\n

From 90.5 WESA.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/a><\/p>\n

From Bryan Whipkey of the Erie Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course, from the hometown Uniontown Herald-Standard.<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Planning for the commercialization of Laurel Caverns. Photo from the Frank Mielcarek Collection of the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laurel Caverns in Fayette County, the show cave operated by David and Lillian Cale and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLaurel Caverns Proposed As Pennsylvania's 125th State Park - Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karst.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/laurel-caverns-proposed-as-pennsylvanias-125th-state-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laurel Caverns Proposed As Pennsylvania's 125th State Park - 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