Louisville Mega Cavern

Aug 1, 2017 5:00 PM

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Next time you are near Louisville, Cincinnati, or Indianapolis, check out the Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky. It's a 100 acre limestone cavern which probably began as a natural cave but was extensively mined for bridge and road construction from the early 1930's to the 70's. Since then, the cavern was rehabilitated, and over 850,000 truck loads of backfill have been dumped to raise the floor to the level that it is at today, to create roads and level warehouse space.

You can bike, zip, and otherwise tour the facility on a tram.

Zzzzzzzzzzzip! The zip tour takes about 2+ hours, extends across maybe 6 or 7 lines and two lengthy foot bridges.

Shit for pic but you get the idea the depths below the zip lines and foot bridges.

The cavern also allegedly houses the worlds longest underground suspension bridge.

"Zipline to Hell" awaits, a 666' zip where you can hover across and holler to your deceased friends members who may be presently burning with the prince of darkness for all eternity.

Beyond recreation, boats, RVs, etc. can be stored without winterizing. They house everything you can imagine storing. The cavern in full capacity could allegedly hold up to 16,000 boats!

The mega cavern is also classified as a building, and is the largest building in the State of Kentucky. Air circulates through by natural air pressure but other mechanisms are in place for mold and that sorta stuff.

Fun fact, officials made plans during the Cuban missile crisis to house 50,000 people in the cavern in case of nuclear attack.

Hope you get to see it one day.
Source: http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/about/history.html
and many others but I closed my text box and am too damned lazy to find em again....

Live in MO worked inside a cave for a bit they're really awesome climate controlled all year round. It was used as a storage facility.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mhmm. I want to show off my city now. I shall try to get a post together of Louisville stuffs

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've been to Louisville like, 6 times now. Never even knew about this!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I live in Kentucky, I'll be sure to go here sometime. This looks rad as hell.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool :)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks OP !

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm going to need a banana

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just so happens I'm in Louisville right now. Thanks!!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's the Tarisian undercity prior to the Sith bombardment, you can't fool me.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Geology yeah!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks for sharing

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

When you cross the rope bridge they play the Indiana Jones theme music!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I used to go down there when it was a working mine back in the 70s with my grandma who worked there in admin. It was spooky fun.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously cool place in my state.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure I've built a VaultTec Vault in there once.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is fantastic. There's a similar limestone quarry in Wirksworth, UK. 28 miles in total, but it's all locked down, real potentential.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

parts of the winsford salt mine in cheshire are used for storing national archive material.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

zipline height pic = f that

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The thumbnail lead me to believe it was the underside of someone's house.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yay for Louisville!

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Love posts like this! Informative and interesting! I would love to check it out someday.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In all the time I lived there, I kept meaning to check it out but never went

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Me too, and I finally checked it out on a recent visit. Said naw, walked out, then went back and did the zip tour. Worth it!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Really? I wasn't super into it. I got bored halfwy through

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My girlfriend and I did the zip lines a couple weeks ago... terrifying but worth it lol

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love the zipline tour. Anytime I find a friend who hasn't done it, I make sure I change that as soon as possible.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm actually in Louisville for bourbon and beyond. Should I spend some time checking this out too? Or just the distilleries?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Its worth it! We had so much fun... Great way to break up the trip for a few. Wish they had more zips

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in Louisville but I've never been

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah it's funny, I've been to Mammoth Cave, Cave Hill Cemetery and most of the museums downtown but I've never been to the Mega Caverns.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you go at the right time it's not bad! I've gone before when I've driven right up to the entrance

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in Louisville. The dirt bike area is neat. The rest of it is ridiculously touristy. If you wanna see caverns see mammoth cave.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Is it worth taking two kids 12 and 14 to do the zip line tour? What does ridiculously touristy mean?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I took a 10, 13, and 15. Totally worth it

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Kentucky has some really amazing places, people underestimate how cool it is here!

8 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

One of three places you can legit see a moon bow

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Bernhein Forest, Mega Cavern, Mammoth cave, the list goes on

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bernheim especially. I got married there, in front of the "Let There Be Light" statue where Bernheim is buried. So rad

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm, I live in Cave City.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was there 3 weeks ago!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Worth the trip?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a good time if you've never done something like it, if expensive

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also Lights Under Louisville at Christmastime. Be prepared for massive traffic tho.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Massive traffic and a lame theme is the reason I stayed away from Thunder Over Louisville this year as well.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you go at the right time it's not bad! I've gone and driven right up to the entrance!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this is where the 1% will go to hide and leave our sorry asses when shit goes down.

8 years ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 5

You mean, DEN? this is just limestone cave shit. If you have the ability to kill people remotely, why live in a cave in Kentucky when SHTF?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

No way, theirs has velour, peasant.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's actually the Greenbriar country club in West Virginia, I think. That was congress's plan A, anyway.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The hive

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every abode in Switzerland legally has to provide info directing inhabitants to nearest underground bunker.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I've been there and that was exactly the purpose of this

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

That's mount weather VA

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No we won't. We have islands in the tropics for that. Think we would live in a cave? Friggin plebs.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can we send them there now?

8 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

Because Fuck Elon Musk and Bill Gates, right? They aren't all bad, guys.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They can still do work from in there. ; )

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Sep 21, 2017 7:34 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Lets recreate the Reigns of Castamere

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

After we throw a few deadly viruses in there

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Fun fact: the caverns were connected to a network of tunnels under Louisville for use as a bomb shelter during the Cold War. A lot of public

8 years ago | Likes 117 Dislikes 0

funds went to top secret government experiments, and it is said the screams still haunt the survivors.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

buildings that were around in that era still have them, albeit sealed off--my high school is one of 'em.

8 years ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 0

If you don't mind me asking what school did you go to? I went to Atherton and always heard about tunnels under the school.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Wait, what school in Atherton? I haven't heard of any tunnels. Also, which Atherton, the one in CA?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Atherton is the name of a high school in Louisville, the same city as the mega cavern in the post.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ah, that makes a lot more sense

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep, that was mine as well. Never managed to find where the entrance was. Did talk with a teacher who found it as a student who said it was-

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

pretty thoroughly chained up.

8 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Did, did you guys go to Sunnydale highschool? Did you guys have a hellmouth?

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