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Caves in United States

United States has 123 caves on Detourmap — caves, caverns, grottoes and the karst underground. The best known is Mammoth Cave National Park. All of them are below.

Caves
123
Of nature
123 of 2,545
Little known
114 of 123
Oldest
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve 1909

Questions about this page

How many caves are there in United States?

123 on this map, out of 2,545 nature & landscapes in United States. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.

What is the best known cave in United States?

Mammoth Cave National Park. U.S. national park in Kentucky.

Which caves in United States are the least visited?

114 of the 123 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Caves elsewhere

France158 Spain149 United Kingdom124 Germany82 Italy78 India63 Greece46 Slovakia37 Russia34 China32 Croatia32 Austria29

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