Hall Crawl Cumberland Caverns Badge

Hall Crawl

Time: 2-3 Hours Age Requirement: 6+ ONLY

Group Size: Groups of 2+ Tour Time: Click BOOK NOW to see availability!*

It’s 9:30 A.M., and you’re prepped and ready for the big adventure. The sun is shining, and there’s a slight breeze making its way from the peak of Cardwell Mountain. With this fresh mountain air in your lungs, you fasten the strap on your helmet and descend into Cardwell’s sunken peak; the peak that’s 333 feet below.

You’re only a beginner, but nothing can ward you off; nothing can keep you from the twists and turns that live in this dark and magnificent place. Illuminated by the glow of your headlamp, you come face-to-face with glowing gypsum crystals and sights and formations that have been centuries in the making.

The Hall Crawl will, oftentimes, leave you a little muddy — but it will always leave you with an itch to come back for more.

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Physical Expectations:

3/4 of a mile

  • Perfect for the family- this tour is easier for the kids than adults (plenty of crawling!)
  • Tight squeezes (must fit through a 12"x33" space) and cave crawling (perfect for kids!)
  • Required to wear gloves, sturdy hiking shoes, and long pants (NO SHORTS!)
  • You will get muddy!!! Bring a change of clothes for after! 
  • Young girl squatting and smiling inside the caverns
  • Person hiking down rocks within the caverns
  • Young kid moving from one ladder to another ladder on a hiking tour

Tour Highlights:

  • Unsurpassed underground sights and formations
  • Stunning gypsum crystals 
  • Muddy passages 
  • Experience the famous Lemon Squeezer and Bubblegum Alley
  • Perfect adventure tour for kids or those who have never caved before.

Tour Prices:

  • Adventure Tour: $55 per person
  • Private Tour: $85 per person
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Higgenbotham's Hollow Cumberland Caverns Badge

Higgenbotham’s Hollow

Time: 3-4 Hours Age Requirement: 11+

Group Size: Groups of 2+ Tour Time: Click BOOK NOW to see availability!*

On Higgenbotham’s Hollow, you’ll walk in the footsteps of Aaron Higgenbotham, the first human to encounter the 25-foot drop into the original skylight entrance of the cave.

You’ll hike a mile through the woods to squeeze through tight passageways, feel the pop of the mud against your rubber sole on Bubblegum Alley, and traverse high-ladder climbs to places you’ve never seen before.

Just be sure your headlight battery is fully charged so as not to recreate Higgenbotham’s three-day survival in total darkness.

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Physical Expectations:

3 Miles

  • One-mile hike through woods to HISTORIC cave entrance- a through trip!
  • High-ladder climbs (up to 20 feet) 
  • Narrow passageways, tight squeezes, (12"x33" squeeze!) and cave crawling
  • Gloves, sturdy hiking shoes and long pants REQUIRED!
  • Group of kids walking through a narrow passageway on a hike through the caverns
  • Person standing in the caverns with a lamp on
  • Person on a hiking tour standing and looking out at lit up rock formations

Tour Highlights:

  • Historic cave entrance 
  • Cave skylight  
  • Grand formations
  • Faint Hill 
  • The ledge where Aaron Higgenbotham spent three frightful days and nights 
  • Experience the famous Birth Canal and Bubblegum Alley

Tour Prices:

  • Adventure Tour: $60 per person
  • Private Tour: $90 per person
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The Crucible Badge

The Crucible

Time: 3-4 Hours Age Requirement: 16+

Group Size: Groups of 2-14 Tour Time: Click BOOK NOW to see availability!*

Turns out, the Devil’s Quarry is planted 333 feet below Cardwell Mountain in Tennessee — where cavers are summoned from far and wide.

And it’s no wonder why these brave adventurers travel to make this trek. Because even though the risks involve high-ladder climbs and a gaping hole in the center of the Earth, the reward is spectacular — and magnificently rare.

Tenacious cavers on The Crucible will scale underground canyons, cross Devil’s Quarry, and climb a high winding route to The Monument Pillar — a formation known by many but witnessed by few.

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Physical Expectations:

  • Recommended for experienced explorers and thrill seekers in good shape
  • High, twisting rock climbs, ladders, boulder climbing and stepping over deep crevasses.
  • Winding canyon passage 
  • Gloves, sturdy hiking shoes and long pants REQUIRED! 
  • Person climbing up a ladder
  • Person hiking down rocks within the caverns
  • Older woman climbing up rocks inside the caverns
  • Girl in Cave

Tour Highlights:

  • The Monument Pillar
  • Ten Acre Room
  • Crossing the infamous Devil’s Quarry
  • The Isle of Confusion

Tour Prices:

  • Adventure Tour: $115 per person
  • Private Tour: $145 per person
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Guts & Glory Cumberland Caverns

Guts and Glory

Time: +/- 4 HOURS Age Requirement: 16+

Group Size: Groups of 2-14 Tour Time: Click BOOK NOW to see availability!*

Have you ever traveled back in time — to the Quaternary Age, when wild lynx left their mark 333 feet below the Earth?

Guts and Glory takes you there; to a plot on the Earth’s timeline that transforms you into the cave’s original explorer.

It takes courage to time travel. But it takes real guts to traverse the cave via handlines, high twisting climbs, and ladders.

But as the original explorer, you’re prepared to give what you have to uncover this underground glory. And that glory, well, it comes in many different forms — from The Great Extension, the Monument Pillar, and the Blue Mud Mountain, to the Rock of Ages and undiscovered passages.

Thousands of years in the making, it’s all there — waiting to be uncovered; waiting to meet its first explorer.

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Physical Expectations:

  • High, twisting rock climbs with deep crevasses
  • Tallest ladder climb in the cave 
  • Traversing hand lines and ropes 
  • Gloves, sturdy hiking shoes and long pants REQUIRED!
  • Woman using a rope to climb the side of a cliff
  • Person climbing up a ladder on a hiking tour
  • Person on a hiking tour standing and looking out at lit up rock formations
  • Girl in Cave

Tour Highlights:

  • Passages not seen by the public 
  • Grand Hall 
  • Great Extension 
  • The Isle of confusion 
  • Crossing the infamous Devil’s Quarry
  • The Monument Pillar 
  • Blue Mud Mountain 
  • 20,000-year-old Lynx bones 
  • Rock of Ages 

Tour Prices:

  • Adventure Tour: $145 per person
  • Private Tour: $175 per person
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*Private tour times will be decided at booking.


All tours are non-refundable.