Cathedral Caverns State Park is receiving $9,625 grant from the National Park Foundation to replace older incandescent lights with LED lighting in the cave. The conversion is expected to be completed by September.

The grant is part of the National Park Foundation's Impact Grant program, which gives parks and other significant areas the financial support needed to transform innovative yet underfunded ideas into successful on-site programs and initiatives.

And Cathedral Caverns has begun converting the existing lighting to LEDs and benefited a lot as Park Manager Lamar Pendergrass. said, "We have already noticed a decrease in our power bill, just from the 200 lights we've replaced. We hope to cut our power consumption in half after all the new lighting is installed."