Helpful? Yes. They are underground caverns so weather doesn't affect them.
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Tickets for ages 13 and up are just $20!Children ages 5-12 are $12 and kids 4 and under are free! Due to the variance in group sizing and tour duration, we do not currently offer advance or online ticket sales. We have frequent tour departures and strive to keep wait times to a minimum.
The name of the caverns comes from an old Indian legend of an Indian princess that got lost forever in the forbidden hollow mountain of the two streams. In several larger rooms of the caverns, Native American artifacts were discovered and preserved at the University of Tennessee.
In 1964, a group of business and professional men began the planning and vast undertaking of opening this natural attraction to the public. After 3 years of excavation and development, Forbidden Caverns was opened in June 1967.
The Son Doong Cave in Vietnam is the largest cave passage in the world. This huge and intricate cave system was created by water that percolated down from a rainforest above, ultimately carving into the rock.
Krubera Cave (also known as Voronya Cave), in Abkhazia, Georgia is the deepest known cave in the world at present at over 2000 metres/6561 feet but the cave is very cold, with temperatures of 1.0 C at 100 metres depth, rising slowly up to 7.2 C at 2000 m depth.