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Entrance to cavern. 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.
Sweetwater is a city in Monroe and McMinn counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the most populous city in Monroe County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,312. [4] Sweetwater is the home of the Craighead Caverns which contains the Lost Sea, the United States' largest underground lake. In 2022, TravelMag named Sweetwater one of ...
Home to the Lost Sea, the largest underground lake in the United States and second largest in the world. [7] Cumberland Caverns: Warren County: 27.7 miles (44.6 km) [8] 1810 Devilstep Hollow Cave: Bledsoe County: 360 feet (110 m) [9] 920 AD Located near the head of the Sequatchie River. [10] Dunbar Cave State Park: Montgomery County: 8.067 ...
The Lost Sea is a commercially operated cave located 7 miles southeast of Sweetwater in Monroe County. The lake was discovered by Ben Sands in 1905 when he was 13 years old. The underground lake for which it is named is the largest in North America. Today the cave tour features a ride on the lake in boats with electric motors.
The largest subterranean lake in the world is in Dragon's Breath Cave in Namibia, [3] with an area of almost 2 hectares (5 acres); [4] the second largest is The Lost Sea, located inside Craighead Caverns in Tennessee, United States, with an area of 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) [5]
After this junction, the route then turns more northwesterly toward Sweetwater and passes The Lost Sea. In Sweetwater, it turns west and junctions with US 11 and Interstate 75 (I-75). Just past the I-75 junction, the route enters McMinn County where there are no highway junctions.
Interchange; provides access to The Lost Sea and the Cherokee National Forest: 46.0: 74.0: Madisonville (Warren Street) Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance only: Vonore: 51.9: 83.5: SR 72 west – Loudon: Southern end of SR 72 overlap: 54.3: 87.4: SR 360 south (Unicoi Turnpike) – Tellico Plains
Lost Cove Cave is a part of the Carter Natural Area section of South Cumberland State Park and is located in Lost Cove.It has three notable entrances: the main or Buggytop entrance which is 100 feet (30 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) high, the second or Great Room entrance which was formed by the collapse of an upper section of the mid-cave area, and the third or Peter Cave entrance.