Road Trip to the Lost Sea & Adventure in the Tuckaleechee Caverns

Tuckaleechee Caverns
May 18, 2020

If you and yours are looking for some incredible Jeep Adventures to combine with the most fun Things to Do in the area, allow us to share a couple of our favorite attractions just outside of our area.

Sweetwater, Tennessee is southwest of our area, located just off 1-75 about an hour South. Just 7 miles from 1-75 at Sweetwater is America’s Largest Underground Lake. This attraction is open year round, great in any weather! You will be amazed when you take a ride on the boat in the underground lake.

Cave Lake Lost SeaYour Lost Sea adventure begins with a guided tour of the caverns. This involves a ¾ mile round-trip walk on wide sloping pathways. While touring the caverns and underground lake our guides will tell of the cavern’s exciting and colorful history. They will also explain the fascinating geological development of the immense cavern rooms and rare formations. At the bottom of the cave you will take a boat ride on The Lost Sea, America’s Largest Underground Lake. The Lost Sea is located in Sweetwater on Hwy. 68, just seven miles off I-75, exit #60.

** Lost Sea
**140 Lost Sea Road
Sweetwater, TN 37874
423-337-6616

Another similar adventure south of our area in Townsend, Tennessee is the Tuckaleechee Caverns! Tuckaleechee CavernsLocated on 825 Cavern Road in Townsend, the Tuckaleechee Caverns have been a long time family favorite in the Smokies, and one that is off the beaten path, making it even more of an awesome Jeep Adventure. Tuckaleechee Caverns of Townsend, TN. Known as the “Greatest Site Under the Smokies” are the highest rating Cave or Cavern of the Eastern United States. Carved inside the earth’s oldest mountain chain and estimated to be between twenty to thirty million years old, the Caverns are rich in history and lore in recent years as well. You will find the “BigRoom” on one end of the tour that could almost fit a football stadium inside it. On the other half of the tour you get to view “SilverFalls”. It falls 210 feet from top to bottom and the tallest subterranean waterfall in the Eastern US . Millions of formations are viewed along the 1.25 mile round trip adventure.


825 Cavern Road
Townsend, TN
865-448-2274
https://tuckaleecheecaverns.com/

All of the area attractions are more fun when you take the family in your Jeep. We like to share attractions that are a great combination with your awesome Jeep and your friends and family.

Select Your Jeep and Let’s get you Riding!

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