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Mammoth Cave Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mammoth Cave, United States
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One Long Cave Tour!!!!!
Today we toured Mammoth Cave, It got its name cause it so huge 371 miles discovered so far. We toured for 4 1/2 hours seeing 4 miles. If you think vacationing is a good way to get out of work, not today!!!, It was steep inclines, 700 plus stairs and like ...
Cave Country!
... is going to be very difficult to sleep past 7 in a tent... but a good thing about that is we have a full day to explore. Mammoth Cave is the most extensive cave system in the world and stays 54 degrees year round. We decided on a 4 and 1/2 hour, 4 ...
Biggest does not mean best
... pics in caves. As it happens this doesn’t really matter too much as – and my apologies to the folks at Mammoth – there really is not too much to take pictures of. The four mile walk underground was good – got some exercise ...
Big Day of driving and touring
... We walked back to the car and then were on our way through the rest of the park and for a bit of a drive to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. We stopped outside of Knoxville Tenessee at an organic food supermarket that Jess had found and purchased ...
Out of the caves in Mammoth
... we got out to explore a cave. We stopped at a few more islands to wander around (one that had tree sculptures we dubbed Mammoth's Stonehenge). About 5 PM we hit the ferry at the end. We were all pretty beat. We met for dinner and beers in Bowling Green ...
Time for Pooh to splunk and Scott to bike
... World store in Bowling Green to return this "high-tech" water hose that was not. Maybe I just got a bad one. We pulled into Mammoth Cave National Park around 3:00. The lady at the office was nice and told us about some other sites besides the one I had ...
Mammoth Cave Crawl
Now my daughter has me singed up for the Wild Cave Tour, its nothing like I have ever seen. I have been on some cool cave tours but noting like this. You have to low crawl or belly crawl for over 1000 yards, its 400 feet under ground. You walk through ...
The largest cave network in the world!
... queue of people waiting in line for the first tours of the day. Time being an issue, we opted to go for the Mammoth Passage tour, a simple tour lasting 90 mins and providing an overview of the cave network, which sounded perfect for us. Unfortunately this ...
Kentucky Downunder
Still playing catch up with photos etc. Short post available at my other blog. Will write more here in the ...
Underground Adventures
... it in plenty of time to David's TROG tour - an introductory spelunking tour for kids aged 8-12. They entered Mammoth Cave (the largest cave system in the world) through the "historic entrance"... and then left the main path to start crawling through ...
Day 3
8-11 AM Mammoth Cave NP Mammoth Passage Tour (9-10:30) * did the morning Niagara Falls walking your to avoid the crowds, in the way back to hotel stopped at local sovengiour shop and got a penny pressed. Took pic with huge dinosaur too!...CD ** note to ...
Roughin' It
First off, we didn't stay at the "Woodland Cottages" We pitched a tent. However, Travelpod didn't offer that options. After filling our bellies with sweet necter, Chad and I drove to the National Park and set up tent. Walmart provided ...
Sept. 12 - Mammoth Caves (by Madison)
Mammoth Cave, KY (by Madison) Today we went to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. We first went to the Visitor Center and got our Junior Ranger books and cave tour tickets. I learned that Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world. It ...
Mile 0
... . The mini feels heavy with myself, Nate, and all of the gear. The new tires and brakes seems like a great decision today. Mammoth cave campground is very quiet. We stopped by the visitors center and picked up our tickets and then drove around and picked ...
Chase the longest caves and bats
Spending the slightly warmer spring break at Cave Mammoth with my fallow classmates. The caves are dryer than I thought and some of the murals were there since 17th century.. ...
Serious mileage
... a waffle iron and batter and everything! Apple butter is my new favourite). Did about 3/400 miles today, and have ended up in Mammoth Cave national park, Kentucky. It's beautiful around here from what I can see, and hopefully we'll get to explore more in ...
Riding you
'll ride you easy and push you hard. I'll carry you if you need me because you are doing your part. I don't know what your name is. I'm still wating for you to tell me. Give me a hint. Is it in the way you move me? ...
Unbelievable!
Our last "sight to see" was Mammoth Caverns. We got there around 3:30pm today, then discovered they are actually on Central time, so it was only 2:30pm. The parking lot was slammed with visitors coming and going. I know I was here one time as ...
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Ce matin, froid (zéro Celsius), du moins pour ici. Direction Kentucky pour visiter les grottes de Mammoth Cave National Park (site historique mondial UNESCO). C'est un peu hors de notre route, mais ça vaut la peine (je crois ?). On monte vers le ...
Mammoth Cave
... an early start which has not been the normal for us so far on this trip. This was so we could spend more time at Mammoth Caves, the cave system is similar to Waitomo, but without the glow worms and they are much larger. So far they have mapped over 300 ...
Mammoth Cave National Park! Camp 2 :)
... delta (NPS poster). Ancient underground rivers carved away the rock leaving winding paths and huge caverns. We camped in the Mammoth cave camp ground. A beautiful location just down the road from the visitor center. Down the hill from the visitor ...
Mar 25, 2009
Motorcycle Rain Ride
... avoid going through town during morning traffic and it added on 30 miles. All things seemed to be working against me. As I approached the Mammoth National Park it was after 9am. I felt really bad, I would never ride in rain like that but I really wanted ...
2nd National Park
I have now done my second National Park, Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. Got to use my senior pass for discounts on the cave tours. The park is all about the caves, so I did two tours to different parts of the caves. I still just ...
Just when I'm down.
Was starting to lose incentive on ths Cross Country For A Cure ride on the TransAm. Then I met Russell, who was at Bragg as well, and wouldn't you know it. His daughter is a 9 year survivor of an inoperable brain tumor. Just when I was ...
Underground, overground, Wombling free
... . It turned out to be thousands of tree frogs and bullfrogs all trying to outdo each other Tuesday 20th May Long drive to Mammoth Cave National Park. Time is moving on and we feel we may not get in everything we have planned. We stopped of at ...
Great day met lots of people today....
... took some photos and saw MaryJane again she did some video.....Thanks MaryJane for taking the time to do videos.... Now I'm biking in the Mammoth Cave National Park and it is cool and very beautiful, I was going up this one hill and 2 vans went by ...
Glasgow, KY: 300 Feet Deep
... 4:48 am; I had been driving close to 8 hours for 511 miles. 259 miles to go before reaching one of our destinations: Mammoth Cave National Park. Having driven cross-country from coast to coast for 19 times, I felt the itch to once again ...
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