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Fitton Cave, also known as Beauty Cave, [1] is located near the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. According to Robert Gulden 's cave database, 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.
The "wild" cave tour takes visitors into the undeveloped parts of the cave where the most spectacular formations are found. The gift shop has a small museum on the second floor, highlighting some of the cave's history. One of the exhibits is a large sign that was found crumpled in a ditch, dating from when the cave was called "Mystery Cave."
The published report of the cave dates to 1868. Purchased in 1917, the cave was developed by Clarence A. Linebarger in 1929, opening it as a nightclub on March 1, 1930. Located 300 feet into the cave was a cavernous space hosting a stage for musicians, a bar, and wood/stone booths. [2] The Arkansas State General Assembly met in the cave in 1931 ...
Devil's Den State Park, in the Lee Creek Valley, protects the largest sandstone crevice area in the United States. [4] The valley is littered with numerous sandstone caves, bluffs, ravines, rock shelters and crevices that provided an excellent hiding place for outlaws on the Butterfield Stage Line, from 1858 until the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861.
In 1943, only five caves in Maryland had been officially documented; by 1950, Bill Davies’ "The Caves of Maryland" documented 53 caves in Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard ...
The Discovery Trail opened in 1977 and loops through a 1.2 miles (1.9 km) section of the cavern, descending to the lower level of the cave, 366 feet (112 m) underground, as well as to the Natural Entrance, about 100 feet (30 m) below ground at that point, following the stream bed of the springs that created the cavern.
The caverns are show caves owned by the nonprofit United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation as of 1995. [1] These caverns are located between Zanesfield and Bellefontaine, Ohio, near the Ohio Caverns. Both cave systems were formed by the same glacial process which deposited moraine upon nearby Campbell Hill. [1]