Rickwood Caverns were discovered around the 1950s by a band of boy scouts and their leader, Eddie Rickles. Although the property itself had been known by locals as a graffiti hotspot. Rickles decided to develop the caves into a public attraction with a friend of his, Sonny Arwood. The two combined their names and dubbed the caverns “Rickwood Caverns.” The caverns opened in 1954, but the caverns were sold to the state of Alabama to become a state park. Rickwood Caverns is home to 260-million-year-old limestone formations from the Mississippian…
