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Entrance to cavern. Craighead Caverns is an extensive cave system located in between Sweetwater and Madisonville, Tennessee.It is best known for containing the United States' largest and the world's second largest non-subglacial underground lake, The Lost Sea.
Has the second-largest cave chamber in the United States. [18] Found in Fall Creek Falls State Park. Snail Shell Cave: Rutherford County: 9 miles (14 km) [19] 1951 Part of a larger cave network 13 miles (21 km) in length. [19] Tuckaleechee Caverns: Blount County: c.1850 Has the tallest underground waterfall in the eastern United States at 210 ...
Sweetwater is a city in Monroe and McMinn counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the most populous city in Monroe County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,312. [4] Sweetwater is the home of the Craighead Caverns which contains the Lost Sea, the United States' largest underground lake. In 2022, TravelMag named Sweetwater one of ...
Sweetwater, Tennessee. ... No, this tourist destination takes visitors on a tour of America's largest underground lake — as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. It's part of an ...
Largest and best relict prairie remaining in Tennessee. McAnulty's Woods: 1973: Hardeman: private Only known example in western Tennessee of the upland forests of the Mississippi Embayment Piney Falls: 1974: Rhea: state (Piney Falls State Natural Area) Contains a rare virgin mixed mesophytic forest stand. Reelfoot Lake: 1966
The largest subterranean lake in the world is in Dragon's Breath Cave in Namibia, [3] with an area of almost 2 hectares (5 acres); [4] the second largest is The Lost Sea, located inside Craighead Caverns in Tennessee, United States, with an area of 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) [5]
The lake was discovered by Ben Sands in 1905 when he was 13 years old. The underground lake for which it is named is the largest in North America. Today the cave tour features a ride on the lake in boats with electric motors. In 1940, fossilized skeletons and footprints of two Pleistocene jaguars (Panthera onca augusta) were discovered in the cave.
Norris Lake (Tennessee) 5. Lake Superior (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) 6. Lake Michigan (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin) 7. Deep Creek Lake (Maryland) 8. Lake Chelan (Washington)