Boy Scout Troop 542 Visits Luray Caverns, VA, on Annual Bus Trip

Boy Scout Troop 542’s annual bus trip took them to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where they visited Luray Caverns. These underground caverns are famous for their cathedral-sized rooms with high ceilings, crystal-clear reflecting pools, spectacular stalactites, stalagmites and columns, and a stalacpipe organ that creates symphonic quality musical tones using special rubber mallets that strike stalactites throughout the cave system. The Scouts also did sight seeing and hiked a portion of the Appalachian Trail before visiting Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Harpers Ferry is best known for the 1859 raid on its arsenal by John Brown and his group of abolitionists, an event that was a catalyst for the Civil War. John Schultz IV is Scoutmaster of Troop 542, which is based in Maple Glen and has more than 100 youth members.

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