Scărișoara Cave (Romanian: Peștera Scărișoara, Hungarian: Aranyosfői-jégbarlang), is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in the western part of the Romanian Carpathians.

[2] First mentioned in 1863 by the Austrian geographer Arnold Schmidl, who made some observations and the first map of the cave,[3] it was later explored by the Romanian scientist and speleologist Emil Racoviță between 1921 and 1923,[3] who mentioned it and its origin in his 1927 work Speologia (Speleology).

Bats live in the ice cave, as do small bugs (2–3 mm long) called Pholeuon prozerpinae glaciale.

The portion of the cave open to tourists includes the entrance shaft, The Big Hall and The Church.

Access to the other chambers is reserved for scientific research by the agreement of the Speological Institute of Cluj-Napoca.