Natural Tunnel State Park
Natural Tunnel State Park is a Virginia state park, centered on the Natural Tunnel and located 5 miles south of Duffield, Virginia. It was created in 1967, and opened to the public in 1971. The actual tunnel passes through the Purchase Ridge. The tunnel has been a tourist attraction for more than a century; Daniel Boone is believed to have been the first cacausion to see it, and William Jennings Bryan dubbed it the "Eighth Wonder of the World". For a time, a passenger train line ran through the tunnel; today, it is still used by the railroad for the purposes of carrying coal. It is known that a Cherokee maiden and a Shawnee brave, forbidden to marry, jumped from Lover's Leap (the highest pinnacle at the Natural Tunnel). The park offers visitors to see breathtaking sights, swim, camp, picnic, hike, go to the visitor's center, and go to an amphitheatre. The limestone and bedrock Natural Tunnel was created a million years ago through water and glacier passages. There is evidence of prehistoric fossils and such in the tunnel itself.
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