Chris’ first and second choices for a campground at Great Basin National Park (Lower and Upper Lehman Creek, respectively) were completely full. There was an astronomy festival going on that weekend, so the main camp sites were full and the regularly scheduled cave tours sold out.

But luckily, there were still (theoretically) 4 spots available at the more remote Baker Creek, and they had added two more cave tours to the regular schedule. We snapped up two spots for the 10:00 tour (an hour that suited us better anyway). And we bought an annual pass for the national park system here, a side benefit being we only had to pay for one of the tour tickets.