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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 .
Hubbard's Cave: Warren County: 1810 [11] Largest gray bat hibernaculum in Tennessee. [12] Lookout Mountain Caverns: Hamilton County: 12 miles (19 km) 1823 No longer accessible since 2005. [13] Connected to Ruby Falls. Lost Cove Cave: Franklin County: 2 miles (3.2 km) Also known as the Buggytop Cave. Nickajack Cave: Marion County: 1 mile (1.6 km ...
Forbidden Caverns Forbidden Caverns. Forbidden Caverns is a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Sevierville, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. Flint from these caverns was used by the Eastern Woodland Indians to create arrowheads, knives, and scrapers. The cave also contains a large wall of rare cave onyx. In the early twentieth century ...
Willis Lake Bridge I Site: 40FR12 Archaic 1966 Submerged Brickyard Site: 40FR13 Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian 1966-1967 Submerged Willis Lake Bridge II Site: 40FR14 Archaic 1966 Submerged Willis Lake Bridge III Site: 40FR15 Archaic 1966 Submerged Tucker Rock Shelter: 40FR16 Archaic, Woodland 1966 Submerged Wiseman Cave Site: 40FR17
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
Rock formations in the Tuckaleechee Caverns. Tuckaleechee Caverns (pronunciation ⓘ) is a tourist attraction and the largest and highest rated cave or cavern by AAA east of the Mississippi River. [citation needed] Tuckaleechee runs under the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Townsend, Tennessee. The caverns were used by Cherokees in the ...
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Nickajack Cave. Nickajack Cave is a large, partially flooded cave in Marion County, Tennessee. It was partially flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Nickajack Lake, created by the construction of Nickajack Dam in 1967. The entrance was originally 140 feet wide and 50 feet high. [1]