Appalachian Cave Conservancy

Providing Cave Conservation and Management Services in Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee

Caves Closed

All ACC caves are closed until further notice due to White Nose Syndrome, a disease fatal to many species of bats.

The Appalachian Cave Conservancy board resolved that each cave under the management of ACC shall be closed to all recreational caving and cave survey trips until further notice and that during the same period management related trips will only be allowed on a case by case basis and then only in full compliance with the most recent disinfection procedures recommended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Bill James
in
Ghosttown
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Photo
Peter and Ann Bosted

Stephanie Cookenour
in
Ghosttown
Entrance

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Peter and Ann Bosted

Velvet Room
Perkins Cave

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John M Wilson
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The Appalachian Cave Conservancy, formerly known as the Perkins Cave Conservation and Management Society, is a Conservancy of the National Speleological Society. Click here for more information about Cave Conservancies.

This site provides backup and mirror sites for the NSS Cave Conservation and Management Section and the NSS Cave Conservancies Committee.