The Two RV Gypsies at Ruby Falls on Lookout Mountain

The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers

and their grandson, Alex Jones
at Ruby Falls on Lookout Mountain

July 3, 2011
Ruby Falls is a 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Rock City and Chattanooga, Tennessee. About 200 to 240 million years ago the eastern Tennessee area was covered with a shallow sea, the sediments of which eventually formed limestone rock. This area was uplifted and subsequent erosion has created the current topography. The limestone in which the cave is formed is still relatively horizontal, just as it was deposited when it was below sea level.


Ruby Falls Cave had no natural openings and was not able to be entered until the 20th Century.
Can YOU see the formations described below?
Angel's Wing	Ruby's Drapery

Below: find the Bacon

Below: Beehives	Below: The south end of a donkey going north

Below: Cactus and Candle

Below: Hey dummy - You are not supposed to touch the formations.

Below: Dragon's Foot


Below: Totem Pole	Below: Leaning Tower

Below: Elephant's Foot

Below: Niagara Falls	Below: Fish

Below: Potato Chip	Below: Tobacco Leaves

Below: Turtle	Below: Steak and Potatoes

Below: Western Sunset


End of formations, but there is plenty more to come.
Below: Alex Jones walking through the Weight Watchers Isle.





Below: Alex Jones walking through Leo's Passage.

The Falls are located at the end of the main passage of Ruby Falls Cave, in a large vertical shaft. The stream, 1120 feet underground, is fed both by rainwater and natural springs. It collects in a pool in the cave floor and then continues through the mountain until finally joining the Tennessee River at the base of Lookout Mountain. Different colored lights shone on the falls, but the photos all showed up in purple.
The Waterfall at Ruby Falls \| (3 photos and a postcard of the Falls)

Lights at the bottom of the falls gave the illusion that the water changes colors - but all pictures taken today by the two RV Gypsies showed a pinkish-purple color.
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Walking behind the waterfall - Note: the two RV Gypsies came here again in 2014 with Karen Duquette's sister, and tourists were no longer allowed to walk behind this waterfall. How sad, because Karen thought this was the best part of the tour. The guide said someone complained, so they stopped it. How Dumb! And why should that one person's opinion ruin the experience for everyone else. So the two RV Gypsies will never return here and will not bring anyone else here. Besides, three times is enough anyway.


Below: Views from the outside tower

Below: A partial view of ONE of several parking lots

Ruby Falls Cave combines with Lookout Mountain Cave to form the Lookout Mountain Caverns, although the two caves are not actually connected by any passage. Ruby Falls Cave is the upper of the two and contains a variety of geological formations and curiosities which Lookout Mountain Cave does not have.

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Ruby Falls (this page)

Chattanooga River Boat

Cloudland Canyon in Rising Fawn, Georgia (2 pages)

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Below: Hey dummy - You are not supposed to touch the formations.

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