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Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...
It features Illinois Caverns which is alternatively known as Mammoth Cave of Illinois (also Burksville Cave, Egyptian Cave, Eckert Cave). Illinois Caverns is the second-largest cave in Illinois and has more than 9.6 km of passages. [1] The cave has a constant temperature of 58 °F (14 °C), and portions flood during wet weather.
Mammoth Cave Campground: Campground and Caver's Camp Store: 8.2: 13.2: Mammoth Cave Hotel Road: Mammoth Cave Hotel Entrance: 8.3: 13.4: Flint Ridge Road east – Dennison Ferry: Connects to KY 218; Flint Ridge Road closed during winter months: 8.4: 13.5: Mammoth Cave Tours/Visitor's Center Woodland Cottages: Northern terminus in the Visitor's ...
Kentucky Route 218 begins at the unincorporated Hart County community of Northtown west of Interstate 65 (I-65). It is the beginning of state maintenance as the main road west of Northtown is actually a locally maintained road (Flint Ridge Road) that leads to the Mammoth Cave National Park, and would provide a direct route to the park's visitor center in Edmonson County. [2]
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US 31W passes within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of an entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park near Park City, after crossing I-65 again, this time without direct access to the freeway. The highway travels through Cave City as Duke Highway while crossing two major state routes, KY 90 in the southern outskirts, and then KY 70 in downtown.
Mammoth Cave: 14.352: 23.097: Mammoth Cave Parkway west / KY 70 west – Brownsville, Mammoth Cave Tours/Visitor Center: Northern end of concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway; western end of KY 70 concurrency: Barren: Highland Springs: 15.718: 25.296: KY 70 east (Mammoth Cave Road) to I-65 / KY 90 – Cave City, Glasgow
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