Are there caves in the woods at Great Falls Park in Maryland? Where are they?

Question

Someone told us that there are caves off of the trails in Great Falls Park. (maryland side).We want to find them. Help!

Answer 1

If caves exist, they are either not on US Park Property or closer to Hagerstown than Great Falls.

http://www.nps.gov/choh

The second poster's first link appears to be a practice run for spelunking techniques used in caves since no actual cave was used or seen in any of the pictures.

One of the links mentions that Maryland is a property rights state and you need permission from the property owner if you want to explore a cave on private property.

http://www.wemsi.org/var_caves.html gives a list of accessible caves in Maryland.

Answer 2

There used to be an active gold mine at Great Falls, but it's been fenced off and isn't accessible any more.
What I found out is that there has been cave training in the Great Falls area, but I didn't find anything about actual caves http://www.vkelman.com/training/greatfalls-04-28-2002/index.htm
Here are 2 sites about the geological sites in MD. http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/features/index.html
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/features/summer.html
On this second site, you might check out the US Geological Survey report on the Great Falls area http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-188/ You might find something there.
Sounds interesting...hope you find something!