Since 2001 we
have driven down I-81 many times per year, past signs advertising caverns that
are open for tours.
While we had visited
Luray and Shenandoah Caverns back in the day, we started thinking that it would
be fun to stop at another.
We were
headed to Knoxville to celebrate Asher’s first birthday and decided to leave a
day early to stop and visit one of these caverns.
We chose Endless Caverns because they had a
campground that was part of the campus.
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| That's a Big Sign |
When you are
on I-81 and look to the east just south of New Market VA, Endless Caverns has a
huge sign spelling out its name in large white letters on the side of the
mountain. The sign is a bit of a hike
above the campground, so up we went. The
individual letters are 35 feet high and all of the letters together are 500
feet long. To give you a point of
comparison, the Hollywood sign (considered the largest of its kind) is 44 feet
high and 352 feet long.
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| Flow Stone |
The tour
through the caverns takes about an hour and a half. You pass through lovely chambers with gorgeous
flow stone and rim stone. There are the
requisite stalactites and stalagmites, and pillars of stone. Some of the formations are quite ornate, and
some very simple. It was a very
enjoyable tour.
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| Rim Stone |
The campground
was very nice. It was a very pleasant place
to stop for 20 hours with 1 hike up the
side of the mountain and 1 cavern tour inside the mountain.
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