Monday, January 30, 2017

Touring Caves and Caverns

Luray Caverns, with Lora, is known for its profuse variety of formations and unsurpassed natural color.
Luray Caverns, originally called Luray Cave, is a commercial cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The underground cavern system is generously adorned with speleothems, including columns, mudflows, stalactitesstalagmitesflowstone, and mirrored pools.
Visited Luray Caverns on 12/19/2012. 
Forbidden Caverns Sevier
One of the most popular attractions in Sevier County is the Forbidden Caverns, which are an underground cave that stretches a half-mile.
Visited Forbidden Caverns 9/29/2014
Forbidden Caverns, Sevier County, Tennessee 
Cathedral Caverns, Grant, Alabama
8/13/2014 
Fantastic Caverns, Springfield, MO 
8/13/12012
Fantastic Caverns, Springfield, MO
Fantastic Caverns is a show cave located in Springfield, Missouri. Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in North America to offer a complete ride-through tour lasting 55 minutes, conducted on a Jeep-drawn tram. The trams drive along the path left behind by an ancient underground river. Tram occupants are encouraged to touch a particular section of low-ceiling dead stalactites.
Cathedral Caverns Grant, Alabama 
Cathedral Caverns State Park is a publicly owned recreation area and natural history preserve located in Kennamer Cove, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Grant and 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Woodville in Marshall County, Alabama. The state park's main feature, first known as Bat Cave, was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1950s. Cathedral Caverns was declared a National Natural Landmark in 1972 and opened as a state park in 2000
Desoto Caverns
4/19/2009
Desoto Caverns 
Desoto Caverns
DeSoto Caverns is a series of caves and a tourist attraction located in ChildersburgTalladega County, Alabama. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave". 
Mammoth Cave Bowling Green, KY
7/23/2007
Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. Since the 1972 unification of Mammoth Cave with the even longer system under Flint Ridge to the north, the system has been known as the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System. The park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941.
Lost Sea Entrance 
8/29/2006
Lost Sea Cave, Sweetwater, Tennessee 
Your Lost Sea adventure begins with a guided tour of the caverns. This involves a ¾-mile round-trip walk on wide, sloping pathways. While touring the caverns and underground lake, our guides will tell of the cavern's exciting and colorful history. They will also explain the fascinating geological development of the immense cavern rooms and rare formations. At the bottom of the cave, you will board a glass-bottom boat for an exciting trip on the Lost Sea, America's Largest underground lake.
Marvel Cave
Marvel Cave is a National Natural Landmark located just west of Branson, Missouri, on top of Roark Mountain in Stone County. The cave was known by the Osage Indians in the early 16th century after a tribe member fell through the cave's main entrance, a sinkhole. There is evidence that the Spanish explored the cave in 1541, but the first recorded expedition was in 1869, led by Henry T. Blow. The unofficial Stone County chapter of the Bald Knobbers, a local vigilante group, was rumored to have taken people to the top of Roark Mountain and thrown them into the sinkhole.
Marvel Cave at Silver Dollar City
11/11/2001
Ruby Falls 
8/9/2009
Ruby Falls
Ruby Falls is a 145-foot-high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.


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