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Hidden for over 10,000 years, Inner Space Cavern is one of the best-preserved caves in Texas. It was discovered by a Texas Highway Department core drilling team in the spring of 1963 and was opened to the public in the summer of 1966.
Inner Space Cavern (Also known as Laubach Cave) is a karst cave located in Georgetown, Texas. The cavern was formed by water passing through Edwards limestone. The cavern is estimated to be around 20-25 million years old but were only open to the surface since the late Pleistocene period 14,000–45,000 years ago.
Take a peek at our Virtual Adventure Tour! Adventure Tour. Click here for more info. Hidden Passages Tour. Click here for more info. Wild Cave Tour. Ice Age Tour.
You’ll learn all about the history and discovery of our cavern during this 1 hour to 1 hour and 15-minute tour. The Adventure Tour departs every 20 to 30 minutes on a first come first served basis, no reservation required.
You can purchase tickets for the Adventure Tour upon arrival at the cave. The Adventure Tour goes in the cave about every 15 to 25 minutes throughout the day. Tickets for the Hidden Passage Tour are on a first come, first serve basis at the cave.
Inner Space Cavern will take you on a tour beneath the hot Texas surface, and take you where air condoning comes free. The deep caverns beneath the surface where Earth has created one of Austin’s most treasured attractions.
Inner Space Cavern is located in Georgetown, Texas on the outskirts of the beautiful Texas Hill Country. The cave is conveniently located next to IH-35 at exit 259 (Northbound or Southbound). Coming From Waco (North): Drive south on IH 35. Take exit 259 toward Texas 26 Spur/ Southeast Inner Loop.
Us. Discovering the Cave. Inner Space cavern was discovered by a Texas Highway Department core drilling team in the Spring of 1963. Six inch core samples were taken to determine if the ground was stable enough to support a large highway overpass.
Are you feeling adventurous and want to get off the typical cave walking tour? The Wild Cave Tour will take you deep underground into a complex maze of passages and chambers, where you will enjoy the natural beauty created by rock and water over thousands of years.
Inner Space Cavern is a large, complex cave with many beautiful formations and interesting displays of Pleistocene-age mammal bones. Known to paleontologists as Laubach Cave, Inner Space was discovered in 1963 when boreholes were drilled to test for a highway overpass on IH 35.
