It was created by Chotárny potok, also called Blatnica or Blatný potok in massive limestone layers. This stream creates small waterfalls and cascades here.
The monumental karst gorge is approximately 3.3 km long. The gorge is only 10 m wide by the cities and its limestone walls reach a relative height of over 310 m.
The largest and longest stepped waterfall is the Great Zádiel Cascade and the place only 10 m wide is called the Zádiel Gate.
Zádielská dolina is the deepest gorge in Slovakia and is oriented from north to south. In the rugged gorge are remarkable cliffs, vertical walls and rock cliffs, which are colorful with their shapes, bizarreness and power. In its upper parts we see heavily weathered and forming numerous towers, between which there are depressions. The valley is overgrown with forest in the upper parts and in the lower part the forest passes into rubble.
Of the stone formations in the canyon, the 105-meter-high Sugar Loaf, which was modeled by the erosive action of water, is particularly interesting. Sugar Loaf is the highest towering rock formation in Slovakia. In the rocks of Zádielská dolina there are caves, the most famous of which are Kostrová, Kráľovská, Stará jaskyňa, Kozia jaskyňa, Jaskyňa pod valom, Skrytá jaskyňa, Skrytá sieň, Zádielska zrkadlová jaskyňa, Zelená jaskyňa and Bobková jaskyňa.
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