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Dry River Gap on U.S. Route 33 in Virginia to Harrisonburg-Franklin; Buffalo Gap on Virginia State Route 42 to Clifton Forge; Goshen Pass on the Maury River; Allison Gap, Virginia on Poor Valley Road 613, Smyth County; East Stone Gap, Virginia on Orby Cantrell Highway or U.S. Route 58 Alternate; Big Stone Gap, Virginia
A U.S. Geological Survey satellite image shows the site of the "Big Hole" Project Office including its two above ground tropospheric scatter antennas.. A Project Office located in Chatham County, North Carolina, colloquially known as "Big Hole", came online in the mid-1960s and was described by area residents and persons employed in the construction of the site as being "department-store sized ...
Hellhole is a large and deep pit cave in Germany Valley of eastern West Virginia. It is the seventh longest cave in the United States and is home to almost half of the world's population of Virginia big-eared bats. At 737 feet (225 m), Hellhole is the deepest of several caves in the Valley. [3]
The bolide made impact at a speed of approximately 17.8 kilometers per second (11.1 miles per second), [4] punching a deep hole through the sediments and into the granite continental basement rock. The bolide itself was completely vaporized, fracturing the basement rock to depths of 8 km (5 mi), and raising a peak ring around it.
Unthanks Cave Natural Area Preserve is a 171-acre (69 ha) Natural Area Preserve in Lee County, Virginia. It protects the entrance to Unthanks Cave, which houses significant biological diversity and a wide variety of invertebrate life. The cave's streams drain a significant karst area south of the Powell River. [2]
Moccasin Gap is the more dramatic of only two true, natural gaps in the Clinch Mountain ridge. It is located in the present day state of Virginia, in Scott County.It lies between two cities; Weber City is built into the south side of the gap and Gate City is to the northwest.
A gun-shaped hole became a bizarre sensation in Virginia — and even had its own sidewalk shrine. Now, the so-called “gun hole” has returned to a Richmond neighborhood after a brief hiatus ...
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.