Tuckaleechee Caverns

Tuckaleechee Caverns (pronunciation ) is a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Townsend, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. The caverns were discovered in the mid-19th century and were opened to the public by Bill Vananda and Harry Myers in 1953. The caverns are well known for the "Big Room", an immense cave/cavern room that could fit a football stadium. The caverns have many stalagmites reaching 24 feet tall with flow-stone formations hundreds of feet in length and width.

Rock formations in the Tuckaleechee Caverns

Tuckaleechee Caverns also has the countries tallest subterranean waterfall named "Silver Falls", a 210-foot two-tier waterfall. The cavern originates at White Oak Sinks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Caverns also host the most sensitive seismograph system on Earth and monitored by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).[1]

References
  1. "Tuckaleechee Caverns: Greatest Site Under the Smokies". Blue Ridge Digest (Fall 2016): 22. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
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