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Cathedral Caverns is a karst cave with a large stalagmite forest covering approximately 3 acres (1.2 ha). The public portion of the cave extends along 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) wheelchair-accessible, concrete walkways for approximately 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and has some 2 miles (3.2 km) of paths; another 2,700 feet (820 m) extend beyond the end of the pathway. [3]
Shelta Cave is a 2,500-foot-long (760 m) cave and lake located in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is described as one of the most bio-diverse caves within the Appalachian Mountains. The cave is currently owned and managed as a nature preserve by the National Speleological Society, with their main offices directly above ...
A tupelo gum swamp in an unusual inland location. Cathedral Caverns: June 1972: Grant: Jackson: State A 11,000 feet (3,400 m) long cave which includes Goliath, a 45 feet (14 m) stalagmite. Dismals Canyon: May 1974: Hackleburg
Pages in category "Caves of Alabama" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Map of Alabama. Location: ... Alabama. It was listed as a ... There are more than forty caves in the region extending almost 9.5 miles (15.3 km) and up to 400 feet ...
The main room of the cave is just over ten stories high and larger than a football field. The entrance has been enlarged from an earlier period when it was a 4-foot-high (1.2 m) by 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) hole in the side of a hill. It was thought at one time that the cave system was very large, extending from near Childersburg to Talladega, Alabama.
Rickwood Caverns State Park is a public recreation area and natural history preserve located 7 miles (11 km) north of Warrior, Alabama. [1] The 380-acre (150 ha) state park offers tours of caverns with illuminated limestone formations estimated to be 260 million years old, blind cave fish, and an underground pool.
Kennamer Cove is known regionally for hosting one of the largest family reunions in Alabama. [4] Cathedral Caverns State Park and Kennamer Cave, a cave owned and preserved by the Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc., are both located in Kennamer Cove. A post office was operated in Kennamer Cove from 1870 to 1909. [5]