Alabama in the southern United States has one of the highest densities of caves by area of any state in the US. Cavers the world over come to Alabama to get a chance to explore its wealth of amazing caves.
Alabama Caves and Caverns
DeSoto Caverns Family Fun Park
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DeSoto Caverns Family Fun Park
Alabama Amusement Park
5181 DeSoto Caverns Pkwy
Childersburg Alabama 35044
Talladega County Alabama
Phone: 256-378-7225
800-933-2283
Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 until 4:30
Sun 1:00 until 4:30
www.desotocavernspark.com
Alabama Caverns & Caves Category
Alabama Caves and Caverns
Alabama Archeological Investigations
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Alabama Archeological Investigations
Alabama Waterfalls
Noccalula Falls Park
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Noccalula Falls cascades over 90 feet into the Black Creek ravine. Come explore all the park has to offer and stay awhile in our campground.
Alabama National Wildlife Refuges
Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge
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The Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge was once called the Blowing Wind Cave National Wildlife Refuge. In the past, the cave served a variety of uses. Cherokee natives mined the soil to make saltpeter for gunpowder. Saltpeter mining continued on occasion across the War of 1812, and the American Civil War.
Alabama National Wildlife Refuges
Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge
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Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge
Alabama National Wildlife Refuges Index Page
Fern Cave NWR was purchased in 1981 to provide protection for the federally endangered gray and Indiana bats. It consists of 199 acres of forested hillside underlain by a massive cave with many stalactite and stalagmite-filled rooms. The cave has five hidden entrances with four occurring on the Refuge. Fern Cave contains the largest wintering colony of gray bats in the United States with over one million bats hibernating there in the winter. Bat experts also think that as many as one million Indiana bats may be using the cave and an expedition into the cave is being planned for the future. Getting There .
Alabama National Wildlife Refuges
Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge
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Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge has large open fields managed for warm-season native grasses interspersed with small patches of deciduous woodland and the seasonal sinkhole wetland. The refuge is gradually being converted from crops to native warm-season grasslands.
Alabama Caves and Caverns
Fern Cave Preserve
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Fern Cave
The Kay Hill Deen Fern Cave Preserve, is a privately owned tract adjoining the federally-owned Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge. Fern Cave has five entrances. Four of these are on the Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge (US Department of the Interior), and one (The Fern Sink, or Surprise Pit entrance) is located on property the SCCi owns. One section of the cave is the largest gray bat hibernaculum in the country. As a result, new restrictions are now in place to protect the bat colony from White Nose Syndrome.