Accessibility
Information

Accessible Parking

The parking area immediately around the historic Penn’s Cave Hotel is paved, and there are accessible parking spaces located by the east side of the Penn’s Cave Hotel. There is additional parking space available on the grounds that is comprised of a combination of grass and/or gravel/stone.

Weight Restrictions

Presently there are no weight restrictions on either the Cavern or the Farm-Nature-Wildlife tours. However, because of the nature of the weight distribution on our boats and the nature of the bench seating on our boats and buses, passengers at or over 300lbs will be required to purchase two tickets. Because our boats and buses have fixed bench seating, guests who need additional room may feel cramped when tours are at full capacity. 

There are weight restrictions for the Mountain Tours. For more information on the Mountain Tours and applicable restrictions, please visit the Mountain Tour page of our website.

Cave Tour

The cavern itself is a natural attraction that has only one visitor entrance. That entrance is not accessible by guests using wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and/or other similar types of walking assist type aids, and can be very physically challenging/physically strenuous. There is a 350 foot, 45 degree incline followed by 48 steps that all visitors must descend to reach and board the boat and then come back up after the cavern tour. There are benches located at the top of the incline and at the dock (essentially, at the top and at the bottom, but not in between that walkway). Cavern boats are flat bottom boats with bench seating; the aisleway of the boat must remain clear so that our guides are able to safely walk from the front of the boat to the back of the boat.

The cavern tour is given entirely by boat and all of our guests must also be able to step from the dock onto the boat and immediately go down 3 steps into the flat bottom portion of the boat. Our guests must remain seated on the boat for the entire tour, and, depending upon which side of the boat they are seated on, may have to bend over at certain points in the cavern (e.g., the Straight of Gibraltar). Unfortunately, because of the steep incline, we are strictly prohibited from allowing wheelchairs, scooters, walkers and/or other similar type of walking assist type aids beyond the visitors center building. However, we do allow our visitors to use a single cane or walking stick to go down to the cave entrance.

Farm-Nature-Wildlife Tour

The Farm-Nature-Wildlife tour is also not accessible and can be physically challenging/physically strenuous. It is given by bus (most are school bus style) with bench seating. Depending upon the bus in service at the time of your arrival, there will be three or four steps that must be used to both enter and exit the bus. We do allow our visitors to use a single cane or walking stick to board/depart the buses.

The Farm-Nature-Wildlife tour is approximately 60 minutes long and takes our visitors through the Penn’s Cave farm grazing pastures, mountain and forest areas which have been preserved as natural habitats for birds and other animals. This bus will travel up and down steep hills at times, and the ride may be bumpy at times as the bus does travel mountain roads that have gravel and shale surfaces.

There is one stop where our visitors may depart from the bus to view some of the animals, but otherwise our visitors must remain seated at all times while the bus is moving.