Contact information:
PO Box 7, Mammoth Cave, KY, 42259
Phone: 270-758-2180
General information:
Travel can begin by wooded hills of Kentucky and ask where the national park starts. But you have to look underground labyrinth of limestone including Mammoth Cave National Park.
With more than 365 miles from a cave system five layers already taken, it seems incredible that the new caves are still being discovered and explored.
As one system of the longest caves in the world, this park has much to offer its visitors. The tours are walking, even within the erosion of the limestone in the value of land is between 200 and 300 meters below the surface.
It can be scary, some being surrounded by darkness, sometimes getting into tight places in caves. However, caving, or "caving" in Mammoth Cave National Park attracts more than 500,000 men, women and children each year. It is a unique National Park with all that is our planet.
History:
Curiosity people about 4,000 years ago took the first, American Indians in Mammoth Cave. The remains of ancient torches, clothing and sandals were found, giving clues to the past. Europeans came to the cave in the 1790s and the leaders led visitors through them there.
Mammoth Cave was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It was created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site October 27, 1981, and was appointed as Reserve International Biosphere September 26, 1990.
A more complete description of the history of Mammoth Cave National Park is also on the official website of the history of the Mammoth Cave are available.
Opening times:
Considering most of the sights are underground, visitors can plan a trip for a month. Summers tend to make most of the masses and therefore have the largest number of visitors to choose from.
Instructions:
The most preferred airports are in Nashville, TN and Louisville, KY. Mammoth Cave and is almost equidistant between the two cities. (Find flights for Nashville and Louisville.)
If you are traveling from the south, exit at Park City and the north-west travel on. Ky 255. From the north, exit Cave City and Head northwest on Ky. 70 in the park.
Fees / Permits:
There is no participation fee for Mammoth Cave National Park. However, a fee for sightseeing and camping copper. Tours usually costs about $ 15 per person, and the camp is about $ 20 per site. Prices of tours and special camps can be found be found on the website and book the policy rates of Mammoth Cave.
Main attractions:
There are many excursions to choose from, and Advanced reservations are required. For more information about working with the pressure of time and note that you can physically handle. Two circuits are marked for you and have some well-known places.
Historical Tour: you start this tour is the historic entrance that was originally discovered by pioneers in the 17902 and Indians thousands of years ago.
Travel along Broadway Avenue subway, you sell at booth amphitheater which leads get remembers visiting the actor Edwin Booth later to a place called Methodist Church, where they have carried out service in 1800.
Discover the chasm that drops 105 feet deep. On the way back to the entrance, you pass the poverty Fat Man, a passage that has been smoothed and polished by generations of cavers. Then enter the Great Hall of the aid is a large room that can actually defend. Continue to Mammoth Dome, the 192 meter stretches from floor to ceiling and from water drops when a chasm carved. Finally, visit the ruins of Karnak - a group of limestone pillars.
Grand Avenue Tour: This tour is very popular in summer and lasts 4.5 hours. It starts with a bus ride to the entrance Carmichael, a bunker / concrete staircase leads visitors to Cleaveland Avenue - long tunnel chamber by a river. Plastered walls with seemingly incredible sparkle that to make it more than a thousand years of a cubic inch of it. One mile ahead, the snow ballroom, where the tour for lunch.
Another River Canyon, Boone Avenue, takes visitors 300 meters below passages that you can sometimes so closely both walls are touching at the same time. The tour ends at Frozen Niagara a huge stalactite waterfall, including sparkling stalactites and stalagmites.
More travel options can be found on the official website of the Travel Mammoth Cave.
If the meter does not provide your scene Mammoth Cave National Park also some attractive above the ground. Here is a quick list of things to do:
The Great Forest: Forest Uncut Old Kentucky
Green River Bluffs Overlook stunning views of the river valley Green
Crossing Pond Sloan: Check loud frogs in this depression in the sandstone
Styx Spring: The water from Mammoth Cave arise and flow into the river Verde
Good Springs Church: Founded in 1842, near Maple Spring Group Campground
Accommodation:
There are three campgrounds in the park, all with a limit of 14 days. The office is from March to November and includes tents and RV sites. Spring bearing Maple Group is also open from March to November and only campsites supply. Houchins Ferry is open all year on a first come, first served. Prices range from $ 12- $ 30 per night.
It is also located within the park is Mammoth Cave Hotel, which has 92 units and chalets. (MXN)
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