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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 ...
When the Mammoth Cave Parkway first opened (as a local road), portions of the road — along with Cave City Road (also known as East Entrance Road), a small piece of Green River Ferry Road, and all of Joppa Ridge Road west of the visitor center — were part of the original alignment of KY 70 from 1929 until the 1970s. [5]
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.
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. [6]
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
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.
Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world The following is a list of the longest caves in the United States per length (> 50 km) of documented passageways. Many passageways are still being discovered; this list is based on the latest verifiable data.
Mammoth Cave is the longest-known cave system in the world. “There are caves that have larger rooms, but we are the longest,” Schroer said. “We are currently mapped at 426 miles.