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Bat Cave, North Carolina
Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States and is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named after a bat cave located on Bluerock Mountain (also known as Bat Cave Mountain), it is the largest known augen gneiss granite fissure cave in North America and is a protected area, not open to the public.[4] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names[5][6] and is also a regular victim of street sign theft, especially in the early 1990s during the popularity of the movie Batman Returns.
Bat Cave, North Carolina | |
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![]() A fire engine of the Bat Cave fire department | |
Coordinates: 35°27′05″N 82°17′13″W | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | Henderson |
Named for | A bat cave located on Bluerock Mountain[1] |
Elevation | 1,480 ft (451 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 28710[2] |
Area code | 828 |
GNIS feature ID | 1018981[3] |
The community, located along the banks of the Broad River and within the Hickory Nut Gorge, features several shops, inns and a post office. It is also where three highways merge, U.S. Route 64 (US 64) from Hendersonville, U.S. Route 74A (US 74A) from Asheville, and North Carolina Highway 9 (NC 9) from Black Mountain, becoming Lake Lure Highway; which then continues in a southeasterly direction to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure.