Shenandoah Caverns American Celebration On Parade

These caverns are amazing! I couldn’t believe that we walked over 1 mile exploring the caverns. It took about 1 hour 50 minutes total. Our guide (I can’t remember her name at the moment) was awesome! She let everyone take their time (as much as they needed before moving on to the next section and turning off the lights) in each section of the caverns taking pictures and telling up awesome facts about the rooms and the caverns overall. These caverns are a bit smaller than some other ones in the area but they were a great fit for everyone in our party. I had my nephews (4 & 8) and niece (6) along with my brothers, their wives, my mom and grandmother (89) skong for the trip to the caverns. We were all captivated by the caverns. Especially the «bacon» formations! Even the caverns love bacon so much they take thousands of years to create them! My niece and I especially like the sparkly They also have a great gift shop with really interesting gems and stones you can but for a decent price. They also had a groupon (2 or 4 tickets, which also gives you 10% off their gift shop items, not food or drinks). This was a fantastic deal and children 6 and under are free. So we only needed to pay for 8 (2 @ 4 ticket groupons totaled $ 108) of our 10 in our party. We all really enjoyed our visit and had some great family time!

This is located on the property of Shenandoah Caverns. Definitely worth it to see. They have parade floats from many of the popular parades. This building is huge and so are the floats. They were remodeling and about a third of the building was not accessible but there are several floats to see. It was also free.

I am not into parades, but we went to check it out. It was pretty cool, We took lots of pictures.
It was a quite trip.
My daughter enjoyed the different big sized floats etc.

WOW! OK I have lived in Winchester my whole life and decided to go here on a whim and check it out. Incredible. It was so cool to see all of the gigantic floats up close, and especially fun to see all of the older floats. This was one of the best attractions I’ve seen in this area!
If you don’t want to go to the caverns you can get a ticket for this by itself for $ 9. Takes about 45 minutes or so to walk through if you look at everything. Several are animated too.
You just can’t imagine how huge and intricate these floats are until you see them up close. And as I have never been to the Macy’s Day Parade, Rose Bowl Parade or the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade this was a great experience!

If you are into parades (which admittedly I’m not), you might enjoy this place. It reminded me of an acid trip, not that I have any personal experience with such but you get my drift.
I am writing this review, however, to warn parents of small children of one thing. In the back, there is an old pumper fire truck. Cool, in and of itself, however, there are two axes attached to the side, which are very real and not in any way, shape or form secured. Anyone can pick them up and pretty much do whatever they want with them. I pointed that out to the two women working at the entrance and they said they had pointed that out to the general manager several times. I asked to speak to him and pretty much his attitude was «whatever.»
Kids would probably like this place, though.

Can’t put an actual review because we decided to not go due to time and we would come back and make a day of it along with the caverns. Well the young lady with long wavy hair was quite rude when we said we’d be coming back another day. I sure hope she is family to whomever owns or runs this place. So not a review just an experience that left a nasty no feel good feeling about the place.