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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....
TooCoolforaName
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.
prozack8356
Mhmm. I want to show off my city now. I shall try to get a post together of Louisville stuffs
Atomic2
I've been to Louisville like, 6 times now. Never even knew about this!
beebopbeeopeep
I live in Kentucky, I'll be sure to go here sometime. This looks rad as hell.
01DragonLord01
Cool :)
Goldenteckel
Thanks OP !
WhatTheHeII
I'm going to need a banana
PaulLynde
Just so happens I'm in Louisville right now. Thanks!!
TheRealAethrys
That's the Tarisian undercity prior to the Sith bombardment, you can't fool me.
iamtheyaki
Geology yeah!
blaChek
Thanks for sharing
ILoveYouMommy
When you cross the rope bridge they play the Indiana Jones theme music!
skeanthu
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.
roamer145
Seriously cool place in my state.
Arcian
I'm pretty sure I've built a VaultTec Vault in there once.
Vick4rs
This is fantastic. There's a similar limestone quarry in Wirksworth, UK. 28 miles in total, but it's all locked down, real potentential.
lambaroo
parts of the winsford salt mine in cheshire are used for storing national archive material.
SolitaireG
zipline height pic = f that
CheeseborgarSoop
The thumbnail lead me to believe it was the underside of someone's house.
geekyginger502
Yay for Louisville!
lizinnc
Love posts like this! Informative and interesting! I would love to check it out someday.
TonyStarkWantsOne
TheMouseOfMadness
In all the time I lived there, I kept meaning to check it out but never went
olhotdogfingers
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!
AlmightyDylon
Really? I wasn't super into it. I got bored halfwy through
EverSeeAnyonePutOnACondomWithACrowbar
My girlfriend and I did the zip lines a couple weeks ago... terrifying but worth it lol
clholl10
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.
nickachu
I'm actually in Louisville for bourbon and beyond. Should I spend some time checking this out too? Or just the distilleries?
moemiso
Its worth it! We had so much fun... Great way to break up the trip for a few. Wish they had more zips
thenotsomightyThor
I live in Louisville but I've never been
xvermillion
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.
thecoolestcat
If you go at the right time it's not bad! I've gone before when I've driven right up to the entrance
farnzly
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.
Drewbeedoo
Is it worth taking two kids 12 and 14 to do the zip line tour? What does ridiculously touristy mean?
olhotdogfingers
I took a 10, 13, and 15. Totally worth it
HoaryP
Kentucky has some really amazing places, people underestimate how cool it is here!
prozack8356
One of three places you can legit see a moon bow
4chansdboard
Bernhein Forest, Mega Cavern, Mammoth cave, the list goes on
HoaryP
Bernheim especially. I got married there, in front of the "Let There Be Light" statue where Bernheim is buried. So rad
LucidAftermath
Can confirm, I live in Cave City.
Holycrapnoname87
I was there 3 weeks ago!
Drewbeedoo
Worth the trip?
Holycrapnoname87
It's a good time if you've never done something like it, if expensive
sheshazelnuts
Also Lights Under Louisville at Christmastime. Be prepared for massive traffic tho.
xvermillion
Massive traffic and a lame theme is the reason I stayed away from Thunder Over Louisville this year as well.
thecoolestcat
If you go at the right time it's not bad! I've gone and driven right up to the entrance!
chrisnumbers
this is where the 1% will go to hide and leave our sorry asses when shit goes down.
cuckquest
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?
circlebreaker
No way, theirs has velour, peasant.
LeastInterestingManInTheWorld
That's actually the Greenbriar country club in West Virginia, I think. That was congress's plan A, anyway.
goofyboots81
The hive
Paoloc0mments
Every abode in Switzerland legally has to provide info directing inhabitants to nearest underground bunker.
brightintempas
I've been there and that was exactly the purpose of this
Jasperman62
That's mount weather VA
Partnerd
No we won't. We have islands in the tropics for that. Think we would live in a cave? Friggin plebs.
LeumisRichardson
Can we send them there now?
Santooth
Because Fuck Elon Musk and Bill Gates, right? They aren't all bad, guys.
LeumisRichardson
They can still do work from in there. ; )
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ConcernedPansexual
Lets recreate the Reigns of Castamere
ColonelSamanthaCarter
After we throw a few deadly viruses in there
justherefortheshitposting
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
DevonGronka
funds went to top secret government experiments, and it is said the screams still haunt the survivors.
justherefortheshitposting
buildings that were around in that era still have them, albeit sealed off--my high school is one of 'em.
MungoVitoGotHellaCats
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.
kiteal
Wait, what school in Atherton? I haven't heard of any tunnels. Also, which Atherton, the one in CA?
MungoVitoGotHellaCats
Atherton is the name of a high school in Louisville, the same city as the mega cavern in the post.
kiteal
Ah, that makes a lot more sense
justherefortheshitposting
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-
justherefortheshitposting
pretty thoroughly chained up.
Aragorn91
Did, did you guys go to Sunnydale highschool? Did you guys have a hellmouth?