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Tuesday, 13 November 2018 |
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Tuckaleechee Caverns Ride 2018 (August 28, 2018)
On Tuesday we took a road trip to the
Tuckaleechee Caverns in Townsend, TN. The caverns first opened to the
public in 1931 but closed because of the depression. The caves were
then reopened in 1953 by W.E. "Bill" Vananda and Harry Myers after years
of work to build steps and passageways. The caverns are carved inside the earth's oldest mountain chain and estimated to be between twenty to thirty million years old. At one end of the tour you will find the "BigRoom" that is more than 400 feet long, 300 feet across, and 150 feet deep and could almost fit a football stadium inside it. The Big Room has stalagmites up to 24 feet high. On the other half of the tour you get to view "SilverFalls". It falls 210 feet from top to bottom and is the tallest subterranean waterfall in the Eastern US . Millions of formations are viewed along the 1.25 mile round trip adventure.
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