Alabama

There are over 4200 caves in Alabama - so the mentioned list only includes the caverns that are open for public touring.
The caves are concentrated in the northeast part of the state, and Jackson County, Alabama

Jackson County, Alabama

Jackson County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Andrew Jackson, general in the United States Army and President of the United States of America. As of 2010, the population was 53,227. The county seat is Scottsboro. Jackson County is a prohibition or dry county,...

 has the highest concentration of caves of any county in the United States.
More information should be available from a local cave grotto, the community divisions of the National Speleological Society

National Speleological Society

The National Speleological Society is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally located in Washington D.C., its current offices are in Huntsville, Alabama...

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Additional information is limited because of the safety of inexperienced cavers, the safety of endangered wildlife, and the risk of vandalism.

• Cathedral Caverns
  Cathedral Caverns State Park
  Cathedral Caverns State Park is located in northern Marshall County, Alabama, southeast of the town of Woodville. The cave is located in Kennamer Cove. The cave is also just from Grant. The cave was originally named Bats Cave. The cave was first developed as an attraction by Jay Gurley in the late...
  
   - Managed by Alabama State Parks system
• DeSoto Caverns
  DeSoto Caverns
  DeSoto Caverns are a series of geologic caves and a tourist attraction located in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave"...
  
   - show cave and entertainment park
• Rickwood Caverns
  Rickwood Caverns State Park
  Rickwood Caverns State Park is a state park located in Warrior, Alabama, near Birmingham, Alabama. Featuring 260 million-year-old limestone formations, blind cave fish, and an underground pool, Rickwood Caverns is a recognized member of the National Caves Association, and offers more than a mile of...
  
   - managed by the Alabama State Parks system
• Russell Cave
  Russell Cave National Monument
  The Russell Cave National Monument is a U.S. National Monument in northeastern Alabama, United States, close to the town of Bridgeport. The Monument was established on May 11, 1961, when 310 acres of land were donated by the National Geographic Society to the American people. It is now...
  
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• Sequoyah Caverns - public show cave and nearby campground
• Manitou Cave - cave access is managed through a local adventure sports organization.

Arizona

• Bat Cave mine
  Bat Cave mine
  The Bat Cave guano mine , located in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona at river mile 266, above Lake Mead, was an unusual, expensive and noteworthy mining operation. The cave was apparently discovered in the 1930s by a passing boater. After several unsuccessful attempts by others to mine the...
  
  
• Colossal Cave
  Colossal Cave (Arizona)
  Colossal Cave is a large cave system in southeastern Arizona, near the community of Vail, approximately 22 miles SE of Tucson. It contains about of mapped passageways, and was discovered by Soloman Lick in 1879...
  
  
• Coronado Cave
• Grand Canyon Caverns
  Grand Canyon Caverns
  The Grand Canyon Caverns , located just a few miles east of Peach Springs, Arizona, lie below ground level. They are among the largest of dry caverns in the United States. Dry caverns are a rarity in that as little as 3% of caverns in the world are dry. Because of this fact, stalagmites and...
  
  
• Kartchner Caverns
  Kartchner Caverns State Park
  Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, featuring a show cave with of passages. The park is located south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River....
  
  
• Lava River Cave (Arizona)
  Lava River Cave (Arizona)
  Lava River Cave is a lava tube cave in northern Arizona's Coconino National Forest. At approximately long, it is the longest cave of this kind known in Arizona. The cave was discovered by some lumbermen in 1915. The cave has also historically been referred to as "Government Cave" due to its...
  
  
• Peppersauce Cave
  Peppersauce Cave
  Peppersauce Cave is a limestone cave found in the Santa Catalina Mountains approximately ten miles south of Oracle, Arizona. Peppersauce is frequented by about 23,000 visitors every year and contains approximately one mile of mapped passages ....
  
  
• Ventana Cave
  Ventana Cave
  Ventana Cave is an archaeological site in southern Arizona. It is located on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. The cave was excavated by Emil Haury and Julian Hayden in 1941-42. The deepest artifacts from Ventana Cave were recovered from a layer of volcanic debris that also contained...
  
  

Arkansas

• Blanchard Springs Caverns
  Blanchard Springs Caverns
  Blanchard Springs Caverns is a cave system located in the Ozark National Forest in Stone County in northern Arkansas, 2 miles off Highway 14 a short distance north of Mountain View. Blanchard Springs Caverns is a three-level cave system, two of which are open for guided tours. The Dripstone Trail...
  
  
• Bull Shoals Caverns
• Cosmic Cavern
  Cosmic Cavern
  Cosmic Cavern is a limestone cave located in north Arkansas, near the town of Berryville, Arkansas. One brochure for the cave touts it as "Arkansas' Most Beautifully Decorated Cave." It is the "warmest" cave in the Ozarks, having a high humidity holding at a constant 62 degrees year-round...
  
  
• Crystal Dome Cavern
  Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome
  Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome are show caves located between the cities of Jasper and Harrison, in the state of Arkansas, U.S.A., on the Arkansas Highway 7 Scenic Byway near the defunct amusement park Dogpatch USA...
  
  
• Hurricane River Cave
• Mystic Caverns
  Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome
  Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome are show caves located between the cities of Jasper and Harrison, in the state of Arkansas, U.S.A., on the Arkansas Highway 7 Scenic Byway near the defunct amusement park Dogpatch USA...
  
  
• Old Spanish Treasure Cave
  Old Spanish Treasure Cave
  The Old Spanish Treasure Cave is located on Hwy 59 between Sulphur Springs and Gravette, Arkansas in the northwest corner of the state.-Legend:...
  
  
• Onyx Cave
  Onyx Cave (Arkansas)
  Onyx Cave is a small show cave located about six miles east of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It has been a tourist attraction since 1893, making it the oldest show cave in Arkansas. It is probably also one of the most heavily damaged....
  
  
• War Eagle Cavern
• Wonderland Cave

California

• Black Chasm Cavern
• Boyden Cave
  Boyden Cave
  Boyden Cave is karst cavern located in California's Giant Sequoia National Monument, along the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway, and just west of Kings Canyon National Park. Regular tours of the cave are given by a licensed guide company between April and November. It is a magnificent cavern with many...
  
  
• Bronson Caverns
• California Caverns
  California Caverns
  The California Caverns, in Cave City, are a series of caverns that are one of the earliest officially recorded caves in the Mother Lode region of California...
  
  
• Crystal Cave
  Crystal Cave (Sequoia National Park)
  Crystal Cave is a marble cave in Sequoia National Park, in the U.S. state of California. It is one of at least 240 known caves in the park.It is in the Giant Forest region, between the Ash Mountain entrance of the park and Giant Forest....
  
  
• Gray Whale Ranch caves
• Infernal Caverns
  Infernal Caverns
  Infernal Caverns is the site of an 1867 battle between U.S. armed forces and Shoshone, Paiute, and Pit River Indians. Infernal Caverns Battleground is California Historical Landmark No. 16....
  
  
• Lake Shasta Caverns
  Lake Shasta Caverns
  The Lake Shasta Caverns are a network of caves located near the McCloud arm of Shasta Lake in California. It was formerly named Chalk Cave and Baird Cave, named after Spencer Fullerton Baird.-History:...
  
  
• Lava Beds National Monument
  Lava Beds National Monument
  Lava Beds National Monument is located in northeastern California, in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties. The Monument lies on the northeastern flank of the Medicine Lake Volcano, with the largest total area covered by a volcano in the Cascade Range....
  
  
• Mercer Caverns
  Mercer Caverns
  Mercer Caverns are located outside of Murphys in Calaveras County California. They are named after the gold prospector Walter J. Mercer who discovered the caves around 1885 and filed a claim. They were later renamed as caverns. The caverns have a large number of speleothems, stalactites, and...
  
  
• Mitchell Caverns
  Mitchell Caverns
  The Mitchell's Caverns, within the Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve, are a trio of limestone caves, located on the east side of the Providence Mountains at an elevation of 4300 ft , within the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area...
  
  
• Moaning Cavern
  Moaning Cavern
  Moaning Cavern is a solutional cave located near Vallecito, California in the heart of the state's Gold Country. It is developed in marble of the Calaveras Formation. It was discovered in modern times by gold miners in 1851, but it has long been known as an interesting geological feature by...
  
  
• Subway Cave
• Sunny Jim Cave
• Ursa Minor (cave)
  Ursa Minor (cave)
  Ursa Minor Cave is part of Sequoia National Park, a naturally formed system of caves in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The cave was discovered in August 2006 by four professional cave explorers from the Cave Research Foundation who found a grapefruit-sized hole on a cliff face in the Sierra...
  
  
• Vasco Caves

Colorado

• Cave of the Winds
  Cave of the Winds (Colorado)
  Cave of the Winds is a cave in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. It is located just west of Colorado Springs on US Highway 24, near the Manitou Cliff Dwellings. Tours of the complex of caves are given daily.-Silent Splendor:...
  
  
• Glenwood Caverns
  Glenwood Caverns
  Glenwood Caverns is an extensive cave system located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The Caverns are now part of the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, a popular Colorado tourist attraction. The caves are accessed by a cable car ride which takes visitors to the top of Iron Mountain. The park offers...
  
  
• Spring Cave
  Spring Cave
  Located in Colorado in the White River National Forest, in the South Fork Valley of the White River, Spring Cave is a large, not completely explored cave that has been largely cut out by an underground river running through it. It contains a lake several hundred meters inside as well as several...
  
  

Georgia

There are over 513 caves in Georgia - so the list will include caverns that are open for public touring.
The caves are concentrated in the northwest part of the state. About half of the state's caves are located in Dade County, Georgia

Dade County, Georgia

Dade County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population is 15,154. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 16,098...

 and Walker County, Georgia

Walker County, Georgia

Walker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on December 18, 1833 from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation. As of 2000, the population was 61,053. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 64,554...

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More information should be available from a local cave grotto, the community divisions of the National Speleological Society

National Speleological Society

The National Speleological Society is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally located in Washington D.C., its current offices are in Huntsville, Alabama...

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Additional information is limited because of the safety of inexperienced cavers, the safety of endangered wildlife, and the risk of vandalism.

• Cave Spring, Georgia
  Cave Spring, Georgia
  Cave Spring is a city in Floyd County, Georgia, United States. It is located south of Rome, Georgia. The population was 975 at the 2000 census. It is part of the 'Rome, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The name of town was named after its cave and water spring hence "Cave Spring". The...
  
  

Idaho

• Kuna Caves
  Kuna Caves
  Kuna Caves are an underground lava tube cave found south of Kuna, Idaho. There is currently one publicly known entrance to the cave, an opening in the ground with a caged ladder leading down into the cave....
  
  
• Minnetonka Cave
  Minnetonka Cave
  Minnetonka Cave is the largest limestone rock cave in the state of Idaho. It is located in Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States, above the village of St. Charles...
  
  
• Niter Ice Cave
  Niter Ice Cave
  The Niter Ice Cave is a geological feature approximately 3 miles south of the small southeastern town of Grace, Idaho.- History :The most probable explanation for the Niter Ice Cave is that thousands of years ago, a volcanic eruption formed a huge lava tube that eventually cooled to form this cave...
  
  
• Wilson Butte Cave
  Wilson Butte Cave
  Wilson Butte Cave is located on the Snake River plain near Twin Falls in Jerome County, Idaho. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management or BLM.-External links:...
  
  
• Shoshone Ice Cave
• Higby Cave

Indiana

• Bluespring Caverns
  Bluespring Caverns
  Bluespring Caverns is a cave system located in Lawrence County, Indiana, approximately 80 miles south of Indianapolis. The cave system is a karst and river type cave formation and drains a 15 miles² sinkhole plain...
  
  
• Marengo Cave
  Marengo Cave
  Marengo Cave is located in Marengo, Indiana. One of only four show caves in Indiana, public tours of the cave have been given since 1883. Tours commenced just days after the cave's discovery by two school children.-The Discovery:...
  
  
• Siberts Cave
• Spring Mill State Park
  Spring Mill State Park
  Spring Mill State Park is a state park in the state of Indiana. The park is located to the south of Bloomington, about east of the town of Mitchell on Indiana Highway 60....
  
  
• Squire Boone Caverns
  Squire Boone Caverns
  Squire Boone Caverns and Village is a cavern exploration attraction in Mauckport, Indiana . The park consists of a one-hour walking tour into the caverns, as well as a working pioneer village and grist mill.-Park's History:...
  
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• Twin Caves
  Twin caves
  Twin Caves is part of the Donaldson/Bronson/Twin system located in Lawrence County, Indiana, within the boundaries of Spring Mill State Park. The system stretches more than four miles....
  
  
• Wyandotte Cave and Woods

Kentucky

• Carter Caves State Park
• Colossal Cavern
  Colossal Cavern
  Colossal Cavern is a cave in Kentucky, USA, the main entrance of which is at the foot of a steep hill beyond Eaton Valley, and 14 miles from Mammoth Cave. It is connected with what has long been known as the Bed Quilt Cave. Several entrances found by local explorers were rough and difficult...
  
  
• Crystal Onyx Cave
• Diamond Caverns
• Eleven Jones Cave
  Eleven Jones Cave
  Eleven Jones Cave is located by Beargrass Creek in Louisville, Kentucky. It is southeast of the corner of Eastern Parkway and Poplar Level Road on the west bank, between Louisville Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery, near St. X High School. It is developed in Louisville Limestone 448 feet above sea...
  
  
• Fisher Ridge Cave System
• Great Onyx Cave
  Great Onyx Cave
  Great Onyx Cave is a cave located in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, United States. The National Park Service offers a commercial tour of the cave.-Discovery:...
  
  
• Horse Cave
  Horse Cave, Kentucky
  Horse Cave is a city in Hart County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,252 at the 2000 census.- History :The city is best known for the large natural cave opening located on the south side of Main Street, from which the town's name is derived. As for the historical reason for the odd...
  
   also known as "Hidden River Cave"
• Kentucky Caverns
• Lost River Cave
  Lost River Cave
  Lost River Cave, located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to the only cave boat tour in the state. Lost River Cave is owned jointly by Western Kentucky University and Friends of Lost River, a non-profit organization that works towards preservation of the cave...
  
   and Valley
• Mammoth Cave
  Mammoth Cave National Park
  Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under which the cave has formed. The park was established...
  
  
• Martin Ridge Cave System
  Martin Ridge Cave System
  The Martin Ridge Cave System is a large cave near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The system, composed of the interconnected Whigpistle, Martin Ridge, and Jackpot Caves, has been mapped to over , and is currently the United States' eleventh longest cave.-Discovery:...
  
  
• Oligo-Nunk Cave System
  Oligo-Nunk Cave System
  The Oligo-Nunk Cave System is a group of a half-dozen caves in Kentucky, United States.-History:The group of caves on Honeycomb Mountain offered to both the mere pleasure seeker and to those interested in geological investigation and research, unusual opportunities...
  
   also known as "Cow Counterfeiter Cave System"
• Onyx Cave

Missouri

• Bear Cave
• Bluff Dweller's Cave
  Bluff Dweller's Cave
  Bluff Dweller's Cave is a show cave located in Noel, Missouri. It was developed by channels of water flowing through joints in the Saint Joe Limestone during the Paleozoic Era...
  
  
• Bridal Cave
  Bridal Cave
  Bridal Cave is a cave located near Camdenton, Missouri. It received the name due to a legend that a couple married there in the early 19th century. Since then, over 2,000 couples have married there....
  
  
• Cameron Cave
• Cathedral Cave
• Cliff Cave
• Crystal Cave
• Current River Cavern
  Current River Cavern
  Current River Cavern is a show cave located in one mile west of Van Buren, MO on U.S. Highway 60. The cave is located inside Cave Spring Park.The cave was first opened as a show cave in 1940 under the name "Cave Spring Onyx Caverns"....
  
  
• Devil's Icebox
• Double Drop Cave
• Fantastic Caverns
  Fantastic Caverns
  Fantastic Caverns is a show cave located in Springfield, Missouri. Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in North America to offer a completely ride-through tour, which lasts 55 minutes and is held in a Jeep-drawn tram. The trams drive along the path left behind by an ancient underground river...
  
  
• Fantasy World Caverns
• Fisher Cave
• Honey Branch Cave
• Jacob's Cave
  Jacobs Cavern
  Jacobs Cavern is a cavern near Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri, named after its discoverer, E. H. Jacobs of Bentonville, Arkansas. It was scientifically explored by him, in company with Professors Charles Peabody and Warren K. Moorehead, in 1903. The results were published in that year by...
  
  
• Mark Twain Cave
  Mark Twain Cave
  Mark Twain Cave is a show cave located near Hannibal, Missouri. It is the oldest operating show cave in the state, giving tours continuously since 1886. The cave became a registered National Natural Landmark in 1972...
  
  
• Marvel Cave
  Marvel Cave
  Marvel Cave is a National Natural Landmark located just west of Branson, Missouri, on top of Roark Mountain in Stone County. The cave was known by the Osage Indians in the early 16th century, after a tribe member fell through the cave's main entrance, a sinkhole. There is evidence that in 1541...
  
  
• Meramec Caverns
  Meramec Caverns
  Meramec Caverns is the collective name for a cavern system in the Ozarks, near Stanton, Missouri. The caverns were formed from the erosion of large limestone deposits over millions of years. Pre-Columbian Native American artifacts have been found in the caverns...
  
  
• Onondaga Cave
• Onyx Mountain Caverns
• Ozark Caverns
  Ozark Caverns
  The Ozark Caverns, located within the south side of Lake of the Ozarks State Park, are part of a very large group of "wild" caves in Missouri. Ozark Caverns is one of the three "tamed" caves that is accessible to tourists, the Bridal Cave, Jacob's Cave and the Ozark Cave...
  
  
• Round Spring Cavern
• Talking Rocks Cavern
  Talking Rocks Cavern
  Talking Rocks Cavern is a cavern system located in Stone County, just west of Branson in the US state of Missouri. It is a privately operated tourist destination....
  
  
• Truitt's Cave

New Mexico

• Burnet Cave
  Burnet Cave
  Burnet Cave is an important archaeological and paleontological site located in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States within the Guadalupe Mountains.-Physical details:...
  
  
• Carlsbad Caverns
  Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park for most visitors is the show cave, Carlsbad Caverns...
  
  
• Conkling Cavern
  Conkling Cavern
  Conkling Cavern is a paleontological and archaeological site located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was excavated in the late 1920s under the direction of Chester Stock. Unfortunately, Stock never published the fossil fauna from the excavations. Instead, R. P...
  
  
• El Malpais National Monument
  El Malpais National Monument
  El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The name El Malpais is from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the extremely barren and dramatic volcanic field that covers much of the park's area.-Geography:The El...
  
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• Ice Cave
• Lechuguilla Cave
  Lechuguilla Cave
  Lechuguilla Cave is, as of June 2011, the sixth longest cave known to exist in the world, and the deepest in the continental United States , but it is most famous for its unusual geology, rare formations, and pristine condition....
  
  
• Shelter Cave
  Shelter Cave
  Shelter Cave is an archaeological and paleontological site located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.-Description:The site is a rock shelter well up on the western side of Bishop's Cap, an outlier of the Organ Mountains. It lies about 450 ft below the summit according to Brattstrom ; this would...
  
  
• Fort Stanton Cave

New York

• Clarksville Cave
  Clarksville Cave
  Clarksville Cave is a cave in Clarksville, Albany County, New York.Clarksville Cave is a horizontal cave system with of passage and three entrances.-History:The history of Clarksville Cave is one of the longest of any cave in New York...
  
  
• Ellenville Fault Ice Caves
• Gage Caverns
• Howe Caverns
  Howe Caverns
  Howe Caverns is a cave in Howes Cave, Schoharie County, New York.-Geology:Geologists believe that the formation of the cave, which lies below ground, began several million years ago...
  
  
• Ice Caves Mountain
• Knox Cave
• Lockport Cave
  Lockport Cave
  The Lockport Cave is a man made cave beneath the city of Lockport, New York. Historical and recent accounts of attempted exploration exist. All of the recent explorations have been attempted from the Eighteen Mile Creek culvert....
  
  
• Natural Bridge Caverns
• Natural Stone Bridge and Caves
• Schoherie Cavern
• Secret Caverns

Ohio

• Crystal Cave
  Crystal Cave (Ohio)
  The Crystal Cave is a limestone cave located in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, a small town on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, with walls that display large crystals. It is also the world's largest known geode....
  
  
• Mary Campbell Cave
  Mary Campbell Cave
  Mary Campbell Cave, also known as Old Maid's Kitchen, is a small secondary cliff cavity cave in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The cliff and cave roof are sandstone of the Sharon Formation, while the cave wall is shale of the Meadville formation. The cavity in the cliff was formed when water passing through...
  
  
• Ohio Caverns
  Ohio Caverns
  Ohio Caverns is a show cave located from Dayton, Ohio near West Liberty, in Salem Township, Champaign County, Ohio in the United States. A popular tourist destination and member of the National Caving Association, it is the largest of all the cave systems in Ohio and contains many crystal...
  
  
• Olentangy Indian Caverns
• Perry's Cave
• Saltpeter Caves
• Seneca Caverns
  Seneca Caverns (Ohio)
  Seneca Caverns is a show cave located in northeastern Seneca County, Ohio, United States, just outside of Flat Rock. The cave is designated as a Registered Natural Landmark by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.-History:...
  
  
• Seven Caves
• Zane Shawnee Caverns
  Zane Shawnee Caverns
  The Zane Shawnee Caverns is a cave system in Jefferson Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States. The caverns are a show cave, presently owned by the United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation...
  
  

Oklahoma

• Alabaster Caverns
  Alabaster Caverns State Park
  Alabaster Caverns State Park, near Freedom, Oklahoma is a state park and home to the largest natural gypsum cave in the world that is open to the public. The gypsum is mostly in the form of alabaster. There are several types of alabaster found at the site, including pink, white, and the rare...
  
  
• Crystal Cave
• Duncan Field Cave

Oregon

• Arnold Lava Tube System
  Arnold Lava Tube System
  The Arnold Lava Tube System is series of lava tubes within Deschutes County, Oregon, of the United States. It is located several miles southeast of the city of Bend. The system starts within the Deschutes National Forest on the northern flank of Newberry Volcano, heads northeast onto BLM land...
  
  
• Fort Rock Cave
  Fort Rock Cave
  Fort Rock Cave was the site of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the U.S. state of Oregon prior to excavation of Paisley Caves. Fort Rock Cave featured numerous well-preserved sagebrush sandals, ranging from 9,000 to 13,000 years old....
  
  
• Horse Lava Tube System
  Horse Lava Tube System
  The Horse Lava Tube System is a series of lava tubes within Deschutes County, Oregon, of the United States. The system starts within the Deschutes National Forest on the northern flank of Newberry Volcano and heads north into and near the city of Bend...
  
  
• Lava River Cave
  Lava River Cave
  The Lava River Cave near Bend, Oregon, is part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, which is managed by the United States Forest Service. The cave is an excellent example of a lava tube. At 5,211 feet in length, the northwest section of the cave is the longest continuous lava tube in Oregon...
  
  
• Oregon Caves
  Oregon Caves National Monument
  Oregon Caves National Monument is a national monument in the northern Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon in the United States. The main part of the park, including the marble cave and a visitor center, is located east of Cave Junction, on Oregon Route 46. A separate visitor center in Cave...
  
  
• Paisley Caves
  Paisley Caves
  The Paisley Caves complex is a system of four caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States. One of the caves may contain archaeological evidence of the oldest definitively-dated human presence in North America. The site was first studied by archeologists in the 1930s...
  
  
• Redmond Caves
  Redmond Caves
  The Redmond Caves are a group of five lava tubes in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. The caves are located in the city of Redmond and are jointly managed by the city and the Bureau of Land Management . They are part of the Redmond Caves Park and have been well known locally for many years...
  
  
• Sea Lion Caves
  Sea Lion Caves
  Sea Lion Caves are a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. state of Oregon. They are located north of Florence on U.S. Highway 101, about midpoint on the Oregon coast. In this area Highway 101 follows a steep and undeveloped seascape above sea level...
  
  
• Skeleton Cave
  Skeleton Cave
  Skeleton Cave is a lava tube within Deschutes County, Oregon, of the United States. The cave is within Deschutes National Forest and is located on the northern flank of Newberry Volcano near the city of Bend.- Origin of the name :...
  
  

Pennsylvania

• Coral Caverns
• Crystal Cave
  Crystal Cave (Pennsylvania)
  Crystal Cave is a cave in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It has been visited by millions of people since its discovery on November 12, 1871. It was found by Gideon Merkel and John Gehret. Greenwich Township farmer Samuel D. F. Kohler bought of land,...
  
  
• Indian Caverns
  Indian Caverns
  Indian Caverns is a show cave in Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a horizontal karst cave of Ordovician Nealmont/Benner limestone, estimated to be about 500,000 years old. It is the second-largest cave in Pennsylvania and the largest limestone cave. Indian Caverns consists of two...
  
  
• Indian Echo Caverns
  Indian Echo Caverns
  Indian Echo Caverns is a show cave in Derry Township near Hummelstown, Pennsylvania in the United States. The limestone caves are open for the public to visit via guided tour....
  
  
• Laurel Caverns
  Laurel Caverns
  Laurel Caverns, formerly known as Dulaney's Cave and Laurel Hill Cave, is the largest cave in Pennsylvania. Located in Farmington, Pennsylvania; it sits on Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown, about southeast of Pittsburgh....
  
  
• Lincoln Caverns
• Lost River Caverns
  Lost River Caverns
  Lost River Caverns is a natural limestone cavern consisting of 5 chambers. The caverns were formed by the karstification or dissolving of the limestone by water. In the past the caverns have been called Rentzeimer's Cave and Lost Cave. The "Lost River", so named because the source and mouth of...
  
  
• Penns Cave
• TyToona Cave
  TyToona
  Tytoona Cave is located approximately from Arch Springs, Pennsylvania in Sinking Valley, near Tyrone and Altoona, in the United States.-History:...
  
  
• Woodward Cave

South Dakota

• Bethlehem Cave
• Black Hills Caverns
• Crystal Caverns
• Jewel Cave
  Jewel Cave National Monument
  Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the second longest cave in the world, with just over of mapped passageways. It is located approximately west of the town of Custer in South Dakota's Black Hills...
  
  
• Mount Rushmore Cave
• Rushmore Cave
  Rushmore Cave
  Rushmore Cave is the 9th longest cave in South Dakota. It measures a distance of . It is located in the Black Hills National Forest, East of Mount Rushmore....
  
  
• Stagebarn Crystal Cave
• Wind Cave
  Wind Cave National Park
  Wind Cave National Park is a United States national park north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the seventh U.S. National Park and the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world. The cave is...
  
  
• Wonderland Cave

Tennessee

There are over 9500 caves in Tennessee - so the mentioned list is limited to "show caves" open to the public, and some famous caves from history.
More information should be available from a local cave grotto, the community divisions of the National Speleological Society

National Speleological Society

The National Speleological Society is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally located in Washington D.C., its current offices are in Huntsville, Alabama...

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Additional information is limited because of the safety of inexperienced cavers, the safety of endangered wildlife, and the risk of vandalism.
Any first-time cavers are recommended to try the "wild cave tours" offered at Cumberland Caverns

Cumberland Caverns

Cumberland Caverns is the second to third longest cave in Tennessee, USA. It has a surveyed length of 27.616 miles , which makes it the 14th longest cave in the United States and the 64th longest cave in the World....

 or Raccoon Mountain Caverns

Raccoon Mountain Caverns

Raccoon Mountain CavernsRaccoon Mountain Caverns was opened in 1929 by Leo Lambert. The property was owned by the Grand Hotel and used as a farm for their restaurant. On hot afternoons, it was said that the farmers would relax in front of several cracks in the rock at the base of the mountain and...

, and if one finds these trips are enjoyable, then contact a local grotto for more cave opportunities.

• Appalachian Caverns
• Bell Witch Cave
  Bell Witch Cave
  The Bell Witch Cave is a karst cave located in Adams, Tennessee near where the Bell Farm once stood. The cave is approximately 490 feet long. The cave is privately owned and tours are given during the summer months and the month of October....
  
  
• Big Bone Cave
  Big Bone Cave
  Big Bone Cave is a cave located in Van Buren County, Tennessee in the community of Bone Cave. It is notable both for its history and current recreational use. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a State Natural Area managed by Rock Island State Park . It is named for...
  
  
• Bristol Caverns
• Bull Cave
• Craighead Caverns
  Craighead Caverns
  Craighead Caverns is an extensive cave system located in Sweetwater, Tennessee. It is best known for containing the United States' largest and World's second largest underground lake, The Lost Sea...
  
   - also called Lost Sea
• Cumberland Caverns
  Cumberland Caverns
  Cumberland Caverns is the second to third longest cave in Tennessee, USA. It has a surveyed length of 27.616 miles , which makes it the 14th longest cave in the United States and the 64th longest cave in the World....
  
  
• Dunbar Cave - WNS
• Forbidden Caverns
• Gillespie Cave
  Gillespie Cave
  Gillespie Cave is located east of Nashville in Antioch, TN. It is a small cave that has two entrances, both of which are small. The smallest entrance leads into a passageway that one must crawl through and has an average height of and an average width of . The floor is silty moist mud. A few side...
  
  
• Hubbard's Cave
  Hubbard's cave
  Hubbard's Cave is a cave and 50-acre natural area located 10 miles southeast of McMinnville in Warren County, Tennessee...
  
  
• Lookout Mountain Caverns
  Lookout Mountain Caverns
  Lookout Mountain Caverns is currently the second longest known cave in Hamilton County, Tennessee. It is mapped length of 2.481 miles places it at 361st on the United States Long Caves List....
  
  
• Mill Creek Cave
• Nickajack Cave
  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...
  
  
• Parachute Cave
• Raccoon Mountain Caverns
  Raccoon Mountain Caverns
  Raccoon Mountain CavernsRaccoon Mountain Caverns was opened in 1929 by Leo Lambert. The property was owned by the Grand Hotel and used as a farm for their restaurant. On hot afternoons, it was said that the farmers would relax in front of several cracks in the rock at the base of the mountain and...
  
  
• Ruby Falls
  Ruby Falls
  Ruby Falls is a 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Rock City and Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States.-Geology:The cave which houses Ruby Falls was formed with the formation of Lookout Mountain...
  
  
• Rumbling Falls Cave
• Tally Cave
• Tuckaleechee Caverns
• Wonder Cave
  Wonder Cave
  Wonder Cave may refer to:*Wonder Cave *Wonder Cave *Wonder Cave...
  
  
• Worley's Cave

Texas

• Bracken Cave
  Bracken Cave
  Bracken Cave is the largest known habitat for Mexican Free-tailed Bats. It is located in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio. Bracken Cave houses a colony of over 20 million bats, making it the largest known concentration of mammals, except for humans...
  
  
• Cascade Caverns
• Cave Without a Name
  Cave Without a Name
  The Cave Without a Name is a limestone solutional cave located 11 miles northeast of Boerne, Texas off FM 474 and Kreutzberg Road, less than from downtown San Antonio, Texas. It has been commercially operated as a show cave and open for public tours since 1939...
  
  
• Caverns of Sonora
  Caverns of Sonora
  The Caverns of Sonora, a National Natural Landmark, is a unique cave located west of the small city of Sonora, the seat of Sutton County, Texas. It is a world-class cave because of its stunning array of calcite crystal formations, especially helictites. These helictites are found in extreme...
  
  
• Inner Space Cavern
  Inner Space Cavern
  Inner Space Cavern is a Karst cave located in Georgetown, Texas. The cave was discovered by the Texas Highway Department in 1963 during the construction of Interstate 35...
  
  
• Longhorn Cavern
• Natural Bridge Caverns
  Natural Bridge Caverns
  Natural Bridge Caverns are the largest known commercial caverns in the state of Texas.The name was derived from the 20 m natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern's entrance...
  
  
• Wonder Cave
  Wonder Cave (San Marcos, Texas)
  Wonder Cave is a show cave located in the Balcones Fault in San Marcos, Texas . Its entrance is one mile southwest of the county courthouse in San Marcos...
  
  

Utah

• Little Brush Creek Cave
• Moqui Cave
  Moqui Cave
  Moqui Cave is a sandstone erosion cave in southern Utah, United States.-Location:The cave lies along U.S. Route 89, about north of Kanab. It extends roughly into a Navajo Sandstone formation in the bottom of Three Lakes Canyon.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Neff's Cave
  Neffs cave (Utah)
  Neffs Cave is a cave in the Wasatch mountains near Mount Olympus, Utah, in the United States. Neff Canyon Cave is not a legendary cave that few have visited, located somewhere far back in rugged mountains. On the contrary, parts of the gully in which it lies can be seen from the windows of members...
  
  
• Timpanogos Cave
  Timpanogos Cave National Monument
  Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a cave system in the Wasatch mountains in American Fork Canyon near American Fork, Utah, in the United States. The 1.5 mile trail to the cave is steep at several points, but paved and wide, so the cave opening is accessible to most...
  
  
• Nutty Putty Cave
  Nutty Putty Cave
  Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah, United States.The cave, first explored in 1960 by Dale Green, is currently owned by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, and managed by the Utah Timpanogos Grotto.In the recent past this...
  
  
• Mammoth Cave (Utah)

Virginia

• Clarks Cave
  Clarks Cave
  Clarks Cave is a cave in Bath County, Virginia....
  
  
• Crystal Caverns
• Cudjo's Cave
• Dixie Caverns
  Dixie Caverns
  Dixie Caverns is a commercial show cave located in the Riverside community of Roanoke County, Virginia, 4 miles west of Salem. The cave is a limestone solution cave.- Description and access :...
  
  
• Endless Caverns
  Endless Caverns
  Endless Caverns is a commercial show cave located 3 miles south of New Market, Virginia. The cave is a limestone solution cave.- History :According to the tour operators, the cave was discovered by two boys in October 1879, while hunting rabbits on the property of Ruben Zirkle...
  
  
• Grand Caverns
  Grand Caverns
  Grand Caverns, formerly known as Weyer's Cave, is located in the central Shenandoah Valley near the town of Grottoes, Virginia, USA. A limestone cavern, it claims the distinction of being America's oldest show cave, in operation since 1806....
  
  , formerly "Weyer's cave"
• James Cave
• Luray Caverns
  Luray Caverns
  Luray Caverns, originally called Luray Cave, is a large, celebrated commercial cave just west of Luray, Virginia, USA, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The underground cavern system is generously adorned with speleothems...
  
  
• Natural Bridge Caverns
• New River Cave
• Salamander Cave
• Shenandoah Caverns
  Shenandoah Caverns
  Shenandoah Caverns is a commercial show cave in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The word Shenandoah has an uncertain Native American origin and meaning. One meaning is said to be "daughter of the stars"....
  
  
• Skyline Caverns
  Skyline Caverns
  Skyline Caverns, is a series of geologic caves and a tourist attraction located in Front Royal, Virginia. The caverns were discovered by Walter S. Amos, a retired geologist and mineralogist from Winchester, Virginia, on December 17, 1937.-History:...
  
  

West Virginia

• Bowden Cave
• Cave Mountain Cave
• Hamilton Cave
• Harpers Pit, also known as "Cow Hole Pit"
• Hellhole
  Hellhole
  Hellhole is a large, deep and — in the caving community — fabled pit cave in Germany Valley, eastern West Virginia. It is the 11th longest cave in the United States and is home to almost half of the world's population of Virginia big-eared bats...
  
  
• Keys Cave
• Lost World Caverns
  Lost World Caverns
  Lost World Caverns, located just outside of Lewisburg, West Virginia, is an underground natural series of caverns. In November 1973, the caverns were registered as a National Natural Landmark as they "feature terraced pedestal-like stalagmites, flowstone, curtains, rimstone, domepits, and...
  
  
• Mystic Cave
• "New" Trout Cave
• Organ Cave
  Organ Cave
  Organ Cave is a large and historic cave in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. The surrounding community takes its name from the cave.In November 1973, the Organ Cave System — also known as the Organ-Hendricks Cave System — was registered as a National Natural Landmark for being "the largest...
  
  
• Seneca Caverns
• Sinks of Gandy
  Sinks of Gandy
  The Sinks of Gandy, also called the Sinks of Gandy Creek, or simply “The Sinks” are a modestly celebrated cave and underground stream at Osceola in eastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA...
  
  
• Smoke Hole Caverns
  Smoke Hole Caverns
  Smoke Hole Caverns is a picturesque show cave in Grant County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. SHC were opened to the public on 30 May 1940. They are located near the mouth of Smoke Hole Canyon from which the cave takes its name. They are located on WV 28 13 km west of Petersburg. Local lore...
  
  
• Still House
• Trout Cave

Wisconsin

• Cave of the Mounds
  Cave of the Mounds
  Cave of the Mounds, a natural limestone cave located near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, USA, is named for two nearby hills called the Blue Mounds. It is located in the southern slope of the east hill. The cave's beauty comes from its many varieties of mineral formations called speleothems...
  
  
• Crystal Cave
  Crystal Cave (Wisconsin)
  Crystal Cave is a cave in Wisconsin's Pierce County, approximately 1 mile southwest of Spring Valley. Discovered by accident in 1881 by William Vanasse, the cave was formed by underground erosion of the Prairie du Chien dolomite. During the school year, the cave is a popular destination for school...
  
  
• Eagle Cave
  Eagle Cave
  Eagle Cave is an onyx cave located near Blue River, Wisconsin, in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. Eagle Cave is known as Wisconsin's largest onyx cave and was the first cave to be commercially owned and operated in Wisconsin. The cave was discovered in 1849 and opened to the public in 1938...
  
  
• Kickapoo Indian Caverns
• Ledge View Nature Center
  Ledge View Nature Center
  Ledge View Nature Center is a park and interpretive center. It is located two miles south of Chilton, Wisconsin. The facility is part of the Calumet County Parks system operated by Calumet County....
  
  
• Perrot's Snake Cave
• St. John Mine

External links

• List of U.S.A. Long Caves
• List of U.S.A Deep Caves