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The following is a list of the longest caves in the United States per length (over 50 kilometres or 30 miles) of documented passageways. Many passageways are still being discovered; this list is based on the latest verifiable data. [1] Some caves and cave systems are partially accessible to the general public.
Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...
Fitton Cave, also known as Beauty Cave, [1] is located near the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. It contains 17.5 miles of mapped passage as of 2024, and is the longest known cave in Arkansas, and the 188th longest in the world. [2] [3] The cliffs on the Buffalo River harbor 340 known caves, many of which are home to endangered bats. [3]
Newly mapped and explored passages make Kentucky's Mammoth Cave even longer. Its known length now stands at 420 miles. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in.
The world's longest cave system just got a little bit longer, as Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park announced 6 more miles have been discovered. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail.
Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system. This list of longest caves includes caves in which the combined length of documented passageways exceeds 100 kilometres (62 mi). In some of these caves, passageways are still being discovered. [1] [2]
Friars Hole Cave System is a cave in West Virginia's Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties. [2] First surveyed in the 1960s, [ 3 ] it is one of the longest in the United States and the world. Various sources put its total length at 63 km, [ 4 ] 73.4 km, [ 2 ] 72 km, [ 5 ] 77.4 km, [ 6 ] or 82.5 km long. [ 1 ]
Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave; Great Onyx Cave; Great Saltpetre Cave; Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost River Cave; Mammoth Cave; Martin Ridge Cave System; Oligo-Nunk Cave System