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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 ."
Seneca Caverns is a karst show cave in Germany Valley near Riverton, West Virginia, USA. It has been commercially presented since 1930. It has been commercially presented since 1930. The largest room inside the cave is the Teter Hall, which is 60 feet tall by 60 feet wide in some areas.
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
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.
The nearby cavern known as "Big Cave", on Cave Mountain, was a source of saltpeter for the production of gunpowder from the earliest settlements through the War of 1812. This cave (not to be confused with the commercially developed Smoke Hole Caverns , just outside the Canyon, or with Smoke Hole Cave in the Canyon itself) is now better known as ...
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 ] 77.4 km, [ 6 ] or 82.5 km long. [ 1 ]