Review:

Deep under the layers and layers of limestone in central Kentucky is an enormous cave, in fact the largest cave system in the world – Mammoth Cave. Mammoth Cave National Park was established in 1941 to protect this strange and magical place.

It is a great place to spend a couple of hours if you are an explorer at heart and are not afraid of dark, enclosed spaces. Only about 405 miles of the cave passages and chambers are explored. The rest is still a mystery and is being discovered bit by bit every year.

The National Park Service offers several cave tours to visitors. These well-lit tours range from one to six hours and visitors can see some of the most interesting features of the system, such as Frozen Niagara, Grand Avenue, and Fat Man's Misery.

Some guests prefer tours that are lit only by their own lamps, and there are "wild" tours, which venture a bit away from the paved parts of the cave into dusty dark tunnels and muddy passages.

1 Mammoth Cave Parkway, Mammoth Cave National Park, KY 42259, Phone: 270-758-2180

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