Last Updated: May 2026
Florida is not a state you associate with caves. The geology of most of the peninsula — flat, sandy, barely above sea level — doesn’t suggest anything underground worth exploring. But the Florida Panhandle sits on a different kind of rock. The limestone karst terrain around Marianna, where slightly acidic groundwater has been dissolving passages through calcium carbonate bedrock for tens of thousands of years, produced something unique in the Florida state park system: Florida Caverns State Park, the only park in the state with cave passages large enough to walk through and open to public tours.
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