11 Caves of Alabama Discovering Alabama 

I spent '64 thru '73 in Florence and graduated HS in 67. My neighborhood friends and I explored every cave we could find. I have contacted several spelunker organizations but have never received any comments in return so I'm hoping you or other viewers might help. 1. Coffee Cave-I wasn't ever driving so I'm vague on actual locations but this was west of Florence off Hwy 20 W. We drove down a field road for a while and intimately the trail ended. There was a burned auto there and we climbed down the trail and there was the cave. The Tennessee River was south and this was a massive cave system. 2. Georgetown Cave. Located to the south of the Natchez Trace Bridge. I believe I've seen where the entrance to this cave was gated up for safety reasons. 3. Now the ultimate. On Hwy 72W west of Tuscumbia, we turned north on a dirt road and probably less than two miles off the highway was this sink hole. The opening was in the shape of a cat's eye and was probably 3 feet wide and 6 feet long. The bottom was if I remember about 80-100 feet. We bought a 1/1/2" hemp rope, 150' long; backed our friends Corvair back enough and secured rope to frame. Made a loop for a foot in the rope and as we held on to the rope my friend drove the Corvair forward and down we went. One at a time. Now we're all high school age and nobody was secure in being the first one to go down. In my brilliance I reasoned that if the rope broke.....it wouldn't break on the first one so I volunteered. It was an amazing adventure albeit a juvenile thought process. Anyway, we proceeded down in 2 groups of 4....exploring all we could and then we surfaced and let the other 4 descend. Now that I was on top I witnessed the rope smoking on the apparatus we'd rigged up for the rope. As we were leaving 2 adults came up....observed our methods and generally gave us quite a tongue lashing for the dangerous way we rigged up our system. They had roll up ladders....the kind professionals use. They secured the ladder and proceeded down. I have to admit that after the vicious tongue lashing the guys gave us on our "successful" system, we wondered just how much better the ladders since we could have very easily thrown the ladders down the hole and they'd been goners as they kept no one top side. Sorry for the length but if anybody can help me in the actual locations I'd be great full. And if anyone reads this and wonders......yes, I think about how stupid BUT lucky we were and I think about it almost daily. thanks for your posting

Hey everyone I went into a alabama cave that rumored ro be 5 miles long! I made a video about it

I went to visit my grandma down there and she showed me a few of them caves I am sure she did know tons I just didn't have time to see it all. She was Cherokee Indian. I just wish I could have seen more

melted buildings

Now you have to go to college to enter those caves.

There are caves in northeastern clarke county also. Creeks running in the valleys creat great caves also. I have pics if anybody is interested.

MAN MADE ALL THE WAY

...a Wheat Lamp ????? How old is this video ?

Tom Brannon, great great grandfather

Sweet Home Alabama! (Song was written in Florida btw.)

$20 says theres a meth lab in that cave now....