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Natural Tunnel State Park is a Virginia state park centered around the Natural Tunnel a massive naturally formed cave that is so large it is used as a railroad tunnel. It is located in the Appalachian Mountains near Duffield in Scott County Virginia. The Natural tunnel which is up to 200 feet (61 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) high began to form more than a million years ago when groundwater bearing carbonic acid percolated through crevices and slowly dissolved limestone and dolomite bedrock.

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length (km)
255.422
building end year
1893-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
building start year
1893-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
height (cm)
15.24
location
Virginia, Scott County Virginia, United States
opening year
1894-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
operated by
Norfolk Southern Railway
owner
Virginia
year of construction
1893-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
latitude
36.703
longitude
-82.743

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