Townsend — The stunning visuals at Tuckaleechee Caverns attract tourists to these illuminated caves near Townsend, Tennessee. Yet, it is the sounds and vibrations in the bedrock that attracts the U.S.

Tuckaleechee Caverns is an underground cave system that is estimated to be between 20 and 30 million years old. It is located in the Dry Valley section of Townsend at 825 Cavern Road. The caverns have ...

Tuckaleechee Caverns is proud of its cave, boasting among other things that it has the tallest subterranean waterfall in the eastern United States. It's also got a tooth it's pleased to show off. A ...

The U.S. military started using the caverns to detect nuclear testing activity during the Cold War. The seismic station is monitored 24/7 and transmits to organizations like the Department of Defense ...

A University of Tennessee professor has gone underground to explain how evidence of nuclear tests, including those conducted by North Korea, is recorded in Townsend. Rich Williams, a seismologist in ...

TOWNSEND (WATE) – Townsend’s Tuckaleechee Caverns has a new addition. A tour guide found a genuine mastodon tooth near the cavern stream last year while looking for quartz. The caverns have now gotten ...

SWEETWATER, Tennessee -- Your perspective can't help but be transformed when you go deep into the bowels of the Earth. Caverns elicit in most of us a primordially delicious sense of awe tinged with ...

On Saturday, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted awake various parts of East Tennessee near the North Carolina border. 6 News got insight on the quake from the Tuckaleechee Caverns seismographs and ...

Townsend, Tenn., sits in the Tuckaleechee Cove amid the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains with high ridges all around and the Little River flowing gracefully alongside its primary roadway, U.S.