Caves Near Me in Gleason
Lost Sea Adventure
140 Lost Sea Road, Sweetwater, TN
The Lost Sea is America's largest underground lake, located in beautiful Sweetwater, Tennessee. We are open every day of the year for tours (except Christmas Day). You will love our General Store, Ice Cream Parlor, Gem Mine and Glassblower. Our cafe, the Cavern Kitchen, offers sandwiches and real pit barbeque to hungry visitors. Ample picnic facilities and a nature trail are also available. This trail will take you through a cove-hardwood forest, typical of forest conditions of the Southern Appalachian Mountains around the turn of the century. The forest is made of a community of plants and animals that is considered the most diverse in the world. The trail is a 1/3 mile self-guided trail.
Tuckaleechee Caverns
825 Cavern Road, Townsend, TN
Carved over tens of thousands of years in one of the earth's oldest mountain chains,Tuckaleechee Caverns at Townsend, Tenn., are known as the "Greatest Site Under the Smokies".
Estimated to be between 20 and 30 million years old, the Caverns are rich in history and lore in recent years as well.