Ruby Falls

Ruby Falls is an 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States.

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Ruby Falls was discovered in 1928 by Leo Lambert, a local cave explorer and entrepreneur, during the construction of an elevator to access the well-known Lookout Mountain Cave; the Ruby Falls cave lies above the Lookout Mountain cave along the same fault line in the limestone layer of the mountain. Lambert named the waterfall after his wife, Ruby. Public tours of the cave began in 1930.

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The waterfall itself cascades 145 feet down an chasm into a pool at a lower level; the flow eventually joins with the Tennessee River.

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Ruby Falls and the larger Lookout Mountain Caverns complex have been designated a National Historic Landmark. It is often associated with the nearby Rock City attraction, which lies atop Lookout Mountain.

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Lookout Mountain: :This article is about the mountain on the border of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. For other locations with this name, see Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and Lookout Mountain, Oklahoma....

Chattanooga: redirect Chattanooga, Tennessee...

Tennessee: Tennessee is a Southern state of the United States....

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