Desoto Caverns Park

This beautiful historic park is home to the nationally recognized onyx caverns which became the first officially recorded cave in the United States in 1796. It is located five miles east of Childersburg on Highway 76. The park has many types of tours for visitors including the Explorer Overnight, Candlelight Tours and a 1/3 mile walking tour which features the Sound and Light Show in the Great Onyx Cathedral. That room is larger than a football field and higher than a 12 story building. The mammoth onyx formations are millions of years old and many are still growing.

The park also has a prehistoric Indian habitat and burial ground more than 2,000 years old, which was discovered by Hernando Desoto in 1540.

(256) 378-7252
or
(800) 933-2283
OPEN EVERYDAY YEAR ROUND Except Thanksgiving and Christmas

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