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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
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 ]
Location of Jefferson County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's failed ...
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley.The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census.Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.
Greer did allow the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WV DNR) to conduct bi-annual trips into the cave for the purpose of counting the populations of endangered bat species. In the 1990s, at urging of the WV DNR, Greer also began to allow limited exploration and mapping of the cave (one or two trips per year).
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 ."
For many years it was considered the longest cave in the world. As of 11 March 2022, the Organ Cave System had 38.452 miles (61.882 km) of surveyed cave passage making it the 55th longest cave in the world, the 16th longest in the United States, and the 3rd longest in West Virginia. [4]