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2. Mammoth Cave National Park - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. California Caverns - Wikipedia

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   The cave was discovered by Captain Joseph Taylor (on land originally claimed by James b. Mckinney for gold mining) in 1849. He opened it for public tours, making it the first show cave in California. James Mckinney originally named it Mammoth Cave in remembrance of mammoth caverns near his hometown in Kentucky. but by 1894 it was known as Cave ...

4. You have to look beneath the surface to fully appreciate ...

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   The first known formal tour of Mammoth Cave was given in 1816, long before it became part of the National Park Service in 1941. One of Mammoth Cave’s most famous early guides was an enslaved man ...

5. Mammoth Cave Parkway - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Kentucky Route 255 - Wikipedia

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   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

7. Mammoth Cave National Park excitedly reveals 'longest cave in ...

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8. Houchin's Ferry Road - Wikipedia

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   Houchin's Ferry Road is a secondary roadway located in Edmonson County in west-central Kentucky.County road logs list this road as CR-1004 and CR-1005. Most of the road is maintained by the National Park Service, but portions of the road outside of Mammoth Cave National Park are being maintained by the Edmonson County Road Department.

9. Stephen Bishop (cave explorer) - Wikipedia

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   Stephen Bishop (c. 1821 – 1857) was an American cave explorer and self-taught geologist known for being one of the first people to explore and map Mammoth Cave in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is regarded as the longest cave system in the world and Bishop's map of the cave, hand-drawn from memory off-site in 1842, was included in a ...