{"id":7067,"date":"2011-07-01T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:00:33","slug":"dunbar-cave-state-parks-cooling-at-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/01\/dunbar-cave-state-parks-cooling-at-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunbar Cave State Park&#8217;s Cooling at the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Written by Blayne Clements<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/dunbarcave-day.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-918\" title=\"Dunbar Cave seen from across Swan Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/dunbarcave-day.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The weather is getting hotter, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/friendsdunbar\" title=\"The Friends of Dunbar Cave\" >Friends of Dunbar Cave<\/a> are gearing up to cool down!<\/p>\n<p>Locals have always come to the mouth of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/environment\/parks\/DunbarCave\/\" title=\"Dunbar Cave\" >Dunbar Cave<\/a> in the dog days of summer to beat the heat. With a year round breeze of 56 degree blowing from the cave, the Friends of Dunbar Cave invite your family to enjoy Mother Nature&#8217;s air conditioning on July 30th 3:00pm-5:00pm. For those who need assistance, or just want a ride, a golf cart donated by the City of Clarksville Golf Pro Jeff Vaughn will be running from the parking lot to the cave entrance, and back.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42446\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_36711.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42446\" title=\"A crowd of people at Cooling at the Cave listening to the Cumberland Winds Jazz Band \" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_36711-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people at Cooling at the Cave listening to the Cumberland Winds Jazz Band\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of people at Cooling at the Cave listening to the Cumberland Winds Jazz Band <\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Come out and show your support, enjoy the natural air conditioning, and tap your toes to celtic music by Red River Breeze<\/p>\n<h3>About the Friends of Dunbar Cave<\/h3>\n<p><span>The Friends of Dunbar Cave is a non-profit group that meets every third Thursday of the mon<span>th<\/span> at the Dunbar Cave administration building. We actively support <span>Clarksville&#8217;s<\/span> only state park. Among other activities, we have bought and spread tons of mulch on the trails, purchase interpretative signs for the park, purchase computers for park staff, as well as sponsor several educational events at the park through out the year. Family memberships start at only $25.00, which includes a T Shirt so you can show the community you support the park. A membership table will be set up at Cooling at the Cave &#8211; stop by and see how you can help support OUR state park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/environment\/parks\/DunbarCave\/\" ><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Blayne Clements Clarksville, TN &#8211; The weather is getting hotter, and the Friends of Dunbar Cave are gearing up to cool down! Locals have always come to the mouth of Dunbar Cave in the dog days of summer to beat the heat. With a year round breeze of 56 degree blowing from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[9091,562,596,1982,555,1971,6455],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1PZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}