Caves With The Tallest Stalagmite

This page was misinterpreted as a list of tallest stalagmites. That’s wrong. It’s a list about weird claims to have the tallest stalagmites.

Sounds weird. Caves with the tallest stalagmite? Of course there should be only one tallest stalagmite in the World!

The following list is a try to collect caves which state they would have the tallest stalagmite of the world. Some of those stalagmites really were the tallest for some time, other cave owners just ignored other caves or were uninformed. Many of the caves still tell the legend of the biggest stalagmite on cave tours, others do not. So if you visited one of these caves, and you are told the tale, you know better. And if you visited a cave with such a legend which is not on the list, please contact us!

Size	Cave	Country	Explanation
80 m	Hang Sơn Đoòng	Tân Trạch, Bố Trạch, Quảng Bình, Viet Nam	Hope and Vision Stalagmite was added quite recently, and it’s an even stranger story than any of the others listed below. Oxalis, the tour operator for Son Doong Cave, claims that this is an 80-metre-high stalagmite. They also claim that it was already surveyed in 2009 by the British cavers who explored the cave. Actually the publication by Limbert states "enormous stalagmites over 75 m high". Years later, popular science articles claimed that the stalagmite was 80 metres high and often confused it with the Hand of Dog stalagmite.
72.76 m	鱼龙洞 (YuLong Dong, Fish Dragon Cave)	Leye-Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark, Fengshan county, Guangxi Province, China	Names containing "dragon" are common in China, we have listed this cave name twice, though not the cave in Guangxi, which is clearly not a show cave. This name is new to the list compiled by Dave Bunnell and replaced the cave in Cuba in 2025. His details are always very precise; we assume he has reliable information from speleologists who have actually carried out professional surveys. In this case, however, it was also published in the June 2024 issue of Chinese National Geography.
70 m	Zhijin Cave	Zhejiang province, China	There is a tallest stalagmite of the world in a cave in China, in Zhejiang province. They talk about 70 m tall formations. Some sources say "7 m higher than the one in Cuba". We believe that this is the true number one, if 70 m is correct. Its is also the tallest stalagmite in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records [2022].
70 m	Hang Sơn Đoòng	Vietnam	The tallest stalagmite in a cluster.
67.2 m	Cueva de Martín Infierno	Cuba	The world’s tallest stalagmite, according to Dave Bunnell, is 67.2 m high. It’s not listed any more since 2025.
63 m	A cave in Matin mountain karst	Cuba	This cave is not open to the public, but it has the tallest stalagmite of the world, which is 63 m high.
38 m	Grotta Ispinigoli	near Dorgali, Italy	Europe’s tallest stalagmite. It is 38 m tall.
38 m	Yunshui Cave	near Beijing, China	One of the chambers contains the largest stalagmite in Asia, named 擎天柱 (Qíng tiān zhù, Optimus Prime), which is 38 m in height and estimated to be 300,000-year-old.
36.4 m	Yuanyang Cave	Guanxi, China	The third tallest stalagmite in the world.
32 m	Krásnohorská Jaskyna	near Rožnava, Slovakia	Rožnava Cavers’ Stalagmite is 32 m tall and about 15 m across. It is said to appear in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest stalagmite in the world.
30 m	Aven Armand	France	This largest known stalagmite in the world is 30 m high.
27 m	Carlsbad Caverns	U.S.A.	This cave-rich Park offers various extraordinary superlatives. The 27 m high Monarch in Slaughter Canyon Cave, is dubbed one of the world’s tallest columns, whatever this means. Ogle Cave contains Bicentennial Column, which is the second-tallest free standing column in the world, being 33.5 m tall.
24.5 m	Ling Shan Cave	Hangzhou, China	The tallest stalagmite of Asia is located in Hangzhou, and is 24.5 m high.
21 m	Meramec Caverns	Missouri, U.S.A.	The most famous formation in the cave, the Stage Curtain, is called the largest single cave formation in the world. It measures 21 m high, 18 m wide and 11 m thick.
19 m	Gap Cave	Cumberland Gap Park, Kentucky, U.S.A.	The Pillar of Hercules was once thought to be tallest stalagmite in the world. It is 19 m tall and 10 m in circumference.
13.7 m	Cathedral Caverns	U.S.A.	Goliath is the world’s biggest stalagmite, 13.7 m tall and 74 m in circumference. The cave also has the world’s widest show cave entrance, 7.6 m high by 38.4 m wide. And it holds four more "world records". Definitely there are even two more world records: cave with worlds most faked world records and cave with the coolest and most educated cave guides in the world.
15 m	Cathedral Cave	Wellington, Australia	Another tallest stalagmite in the world, 15 m tall and 32 m in circumference.
10 m	Wyandotte Caves	Indiana, U.S.A.	In the Senate Chamber, 45 m long and 17 m wide, a stalagmite called Pillar of the Constitution 10 m tall and 20 m wide is shown.
?	Sangsar Darband Cave	Iran	This cave is advertised being "the largest cave in the country containing the tallest stalagmite columns". However, they do not give the length nor the height of the columns. They not even specify, if it is the tallest stalagmite of the country or of the world.