Category Archives: Caves

April 16, 2010
Santas Cave

Santas Cave is the sister cave to Satans Cave under Nicollet Island. Your run of the mill Beer Lagering Cave. Nothing to special when it comes to Sandstone caves. It’s the second largest cave known under Nicollet Island. There are rumors that up to 5 caves exist under Nicollet Island but no evidence that I [...]

January 30, 2010
Nicollet Island Tunnels & Satans Cave– also posted in Tunnels

Nicollet Island was originally the site of an Indian maple sugar camp, and there’s still a street named Maple Place reflecting this. The Islands woods were “so dense with timber and undergrowth, that it was impossible to penetrate it,” according to one early visitor, who also reported of thousands of passenger pigeons. Half a mile [...]