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Title: Virginias Luray Caverns Near Skyline Drive travel brochure.
Location and attraction: Promotional piece for Luray Caverns, a U.S. Natural Landmark in Virginias Shenandoah Valley near Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, and Interstate 81 Exit 264.
Format: Full-color tri-fold tourist brochure with glossy photographic front and back panels and multiple interior panels of text, photos, and maps.
Publication details: Produced for Luray Caverns in Luray, Virginia and printed in the United States; dated 5/08, indicating a 2008 printing.
Front and back panels: Front cover features a large interior cavern scene with stalactites, stalagmites, walkways, and visitors beneath the title Virginias Luray Caverns Near Skyline Drive plus Interstate 81 and Exit 264 shields. Back panel repeats the title with a different cave view and presents Open Every Day In The Year guided tour information with seasonal first and last tour times.
Interior descriptive content: Inside panels highlight Luray Caverns as the Largest And Most Popular In The East, describing cathedral-sized chambers, towering stone columns, draperies, and crystal-clear pools, along with quotes emphasizing its infinite diversity of beauty and fairyland in stone qualities.
Tour and visitor information: Text explains guided one-hour tours along lighted paved walkways through rooms with ceilings up to ten stories high, notes that guided tours depart about every 20 minutes, and provides general visitor information and credit card acceptance.
Maps: One interior panel contains a full-color regional highway map showing routes through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and surrounding states, including I-81, I-64, I-66, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the approach to Luray Caverns from Exit 264.
Associated attractions: Brochure references nearby features such as the Car & Carriage Caravan transportation museum, the ornamental Garden Maze, scenic views of the Shenandoah Valley, and other Southern Highlands Attractions listed in a box on the map panel.
Illustrations and design: Throughout the brochure are color photographs of cavern formations, visitors on guided tours, the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the caverns entrance buildings, surrounding landscape, maze, waterfall scenes, and vintage vehicles.
Narrative type and audience: Tourist and promotional travel brochure intended for visitors planning trips to Luray Caverns and the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, suitable for collectors of modern American travel and roadside attraction ephemera.
