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Luray Caverns, previously Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The cavern system is adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites , stalagmites , flowstone , and mirrored pools.
The Caverns at Natural Bridge; Clarks Cave; Dixie Caverns; Endless Caverns; Gap Cave; Grand Caverns, formerly "Weyer's cave" Indian Jim's Cave; Luray Caverns; Melrose Caverns; Natural Tunnel; Ogdens Cave; Shenandoah Caverns; Skyline Caverns; Stay High Cave; Unthanks Cave
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Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Butler Cave- Breathing Cave: 1973: Bath: Private Two major cave systems that contain a 40-foot (12 m) waterfall, a natural bridge, unusually fine crystalline formations, and an underground lake.
From the discovery of Luray Caverns in 1878 onward, the favorable attributes of the formations for creating musical tones were well known. One of the earliest references to performances of lithophone music in Luray Caverns comes from the tour led by co-discoverer Andrew Campbell for a group sent by the Smithsonian Institution in 1880.
The only known entrance to the seven-mile-long (11 km) cave was purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1987, and was the first cave system purchased in Virginia by the organization. [6] The Nature Conservancy gave the property to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation in 2004, [2] although they continue to conduct research at ...
Saracen's tent in Luray Caverns in Virginia is considered to be one of the most well-formed flowstone draperies in the world. Flowstones are sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. [1]