Cumberland Caverns

09/10/2026

THIS or THAT? 🦇
Which cave experience would YOU choose?

Would you rather take a walk through history? Or climb, crawl, and explore? 👀

🥾 WALKING TOURS
Perfect for those who want to soak it all in and discover the cave’s incredible story. Enjoy fascinating formations, stories, and underground sights along the way.

🧗 ADVENTURE TOURS
Ready to get off the beaten path? Our Adventure Tours take you deeper! Expect more physical challenges, tighter passages, and a true underground adventure!

So, are you choosing WALKING TOUR 🥾 or ADVENTURE TOUR 🧗‍♀️?

👇 Tell us in the comments: Which would you choose, and why?

09/10/2026

Not to brag, but...
I'm 44,444.4 meters.
pls respond

09/08/2026

🦗 You’re exploring the cave when suddenly... something jumps past your head!

Is it pale? Is it striped? Did it just disappear into the darkness?

🦗 CAVE CRICKETS - Genera: Euhadenoecus, Hadenoecus & Ceuthophilus

Cave crickets, unlike their name implies, don't always live in caves. Some species regularly wander between caves and the surface, others may stay underground most their lives.

Euhadenoecus and Hadenoecus are especially well adapted to caves, with long antennae and legs that help them navigate in the dark. Since food can be scarce underground, they're opportunistic omnivores and will eat just about whatever they can find.

🦗 Ceuthophilus

These are the crickets you're more likely to encounter both above and below ground. They can shelter in caves during the day and venture out at night to forage, making them cave commuters.

What people don't think about often is, cave crickets don't just live in the cave. They can help feed the cave. 🌎🦗

When they venture outside for their own meal, they can bring nutrients back underground through their bodies and waste. Helping move energy from the surface into an ecosystem where food is hard to come by.

So next time one launches itself across the cave, don't panic.

He's just the cave's DoorDasher making a last-minute delivery. 😂

09/07/2026

🛠️ Labor Day is supposed to be a day to celebrate American workers.

For a whole lot of workers, it’s also a day to clock in.

Hospitality, restaurants, retail, travel, parks, and yes, even caves. 🦇

Our Cave Crew will be spending the holiday weekend doing what they do best: welcoming guests, sharing stories, keeping tours moving, and making sure everyone has a great experience underground.

And while many people get to enjoy a well-earned three-day weekend, countless others will be working behind the scenes to make that weekend possible.

So today, we want to celebrate all of it. The work that gets done Monday through Friday, the work that happens on weekends and holidays, the jobs that happen behind a desk, behind a counter, behind the wheel, and 333 feet underground.

To our own Cave Crew: thank you for spending your holiday weekend underground with us. You make Cumberland Caverns what it is, and we’re pretty darn grateful for you.

Happy Labor Day to every worker, wherever and whenever the work gets done.

09/06/2026

🗑️ Caves keep receipts.
Sometimes literally...

Our guides call these little remnants “historic trash.”

Old food cans, flash bulbs, and everyday objects left behind by early explorers give us fascinating glimpses into the people who came before us.

But trash in a cave can linger for a very long time and disrupt the cave’s water, formations, and wildlife.

So when you explore, take everything you brought in, back out. The cave has plenty of stories without adding your snack wrapper to the collection. 😉

📷 Take nothing but pictures.
👣 Leave nothing but carefully placed footprints.
⏳Kill nothing but time.

Because someday, someone else will stand where you stood, looking around and wondering what happened here.

Let’s leave them a cave worth wondering about. 🦇
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09/04/2026

09/04/2026

🦞You’re exploring the cave when suddenly... a crustacean scuttles through the water!

Is it red? Is it ghostly? Is it covered in spikes?

🦞 Freshwater Crayfish - Genera: Cambarus & Faxonius
Over a dozen species of freshwater crayfish live in the surface waters around us. When heavy rain sends those waters rushing underground, some of these surface dwellers get flushed into the cave system. Once underground, they're suddenly dealing with a completely different environment. These Crayfish merely adopted the dark.

🦞 Cave Crayfish - Orconectes Incomptus & Cambarus Hamulatus
These crayfish were born into the darkness. Molded by it. They didn't see the light until they were already a Form 1, and by then it was nothing but blinding!

They're pale, nearly pigment-free, and have highly reduced eyes after generations of life underground. Cambarus hamulatus has a little extra armor with distinctive spines and prickly bumps on its shell.

Next time you spot a critter underground, take a closer look. You might just have discovered one of our cave's most specialized residents.

Just don't try to catch them. Those pincers are not a Poké Ball feature. 😉

09/03/2026

🧔📏 Happy National Beard Day!

Every year we take our bearded crew's picture and update the lineup. This year we got a little competitive, and decided the best way was to see who's beard out grew the crew!

Was this necessary? No!
Was it scientifically rigorous? Absolutely not!
Were they happy their social media manager made them be in another video? No Way!
Did I measure them anyway? Obviously.

🧔 The Official Cave Crew Beard Rankings:
🥇 Brandon: 57 cm
🥈 Jay: 29.5 cm
🥉 Derek: 24 cm
Nathan: 22 cm
Justin: 21 cm

But wait... 👀

The ladies felt a little left out of the beard measuring festivities, so naturally, we joined in.

🧔‍♀️ The Lady Beard Division:
🥇 Markie: 74 cm
🥈 Rissa: 46.5 cm
🥉 Brooke: '15' cm (more like 0.15 cm)

Happy National Beard Day from the Cave Crew! Keep growing, keep measuring, but be sure you don’t drag your beard through the mud! 😂

08/31/2026

🍂 Summer’s starting to clock out, which means spooky season is clocking in. 🎃

Looking for something fun to do with your evenings? Brooke’s got a lantern, a spinning pumpkin, and a whole rhythm going on, just waiting for you! 👻🏮

Lanterns & Legends is the last tour of the day every Friday, Sunday and Monday, now through November 2nd.

Come underground. It’s getting spooky down here. 🎃🦇
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08/29/2026

🦗 Chaos around the giftshop!

Some days call for a little chaos, other days call for an entire armful!

Cave crickets have been known to hitch rides on a guest’s shoulder all the way back to the gift shop. So we figured we’d make it a little easier for Chaos the Cave Cricket to get around. 😂

Keep an eye out during your next visit. You never know where Chaos might turn up.

Who knows? Maybe he’ll decide to jump into your bag and come home with you! 👀🦗
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