📍Longhorn Cavern State Park is a must-do when it comes to family road trip destinations! 🗺Their guided tours take you into the furthest accessible point in the cavern that was gouged out by flowing water hundreds of years ago, and since has been the site of some extremely historic activity! 🦇Eastern Pipistrelle Bats call this cavern home as they lay dormant during the winter months before coming alive and flying around and out of the cavern to mate, giving birth to their offspring in the trees surrounding the cavern! These birds scat were once the only source of raw material used to make gunpowder, and the caves were once readily scraped for the “bat guano” that was then turned into live gunpowder! 🪨The Apache tribe once used the cavern as a meeting space, and at the turn of the 20th century, a mining group titled the CCC were tasked with removing tons (and we mean TONS) of rubble from the space, which ended up being the foundation of much of the surrounding infrastructure, incl...