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Seneca Caverns (West Virginia) Sinks of Gandy; Smoke Hole Caverns This page was last edited on 19 September 2024, at 11:10 (UTC). ...
Lost World Caverns, located just outside Lewisburg, West Virginia, is an underground natural series of caverns. In November 1973, the caverns were registered as a National Natural Landmark [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as they "feature terraced pedestal-like stalagmites , flowstone , curtains, rimstone , domepits , and waterfalls ."
Largest cave in West Virginia. Shavers Mountain Spruce-Hemlock Stand: 1974 Randolph: Federal An old-growth stand of red spruce and hemlock trees. Part of Monongahela National Forest. Sinnett-Thorn Mountain Cave System: 1973 Pendleton: Private Cave system with waterfalls and deep pits.
Smoke Hole Caverns (SHC) is a picturesque show cave in Grant County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Draperies in the cave. SHC were opened to the public on 30 May 1940. [1] They are located near the Smoke Hole Canyon from which the cave takes its name. They are located on WV 28 13 km west of Petersburg. Cave formations
In a feat of epic caving over the next three years (2002–2005), members of the GVKS surveyed more than 12 miles (19 km) of virgin passage, increasing the known length of the cave from 8.5 to 20.3 miles (13.7 to 32.7 kilometers), and established Hellhole as the deepest cave drop in West Virginia—265 feet (81 m).
Cass Cave is a cave located in Cass, West Virginia, [1] on Cheat Mountain. One of the rooms in the cave (the "Big Room") is 800 ft (240 m) long, 180 ft (55 m) high and 75 ft (23 m) wide. [ 2 ] Cass Cave has the highest subterranean waterfall in West Virginia and Virginia , Lacy Suicide Falls, with a height of 139 ft (42 m).
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
Friars Hole Cave System is a cave in West Virginia's Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties. [2] First surveyed in the 1960s, [ 3 ] it is one of the longest in the United States and the world. Various sources put its total length at 63 km, [ 4 ] 73.4 km, [ 2 ] 72 km, [ 5 ] to 77.4 km long. [ 6 ]