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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 ...
Kentucky Route 255 (KY 255) is a 16.977-mile-long (27.322 km) south-north state highway located in south central Kentucky. It provides access to Interstate 65 and Mammoth Cave National park to residents of southern Barren County.
Mammoth Cave Parkway. The Mammoth Cave Parkway is a major roadway located in the Mammoth Cave National Park in west-central Kentucky. It encompasses parts of Kentucky Routes 70 and 255 within the park in northwestern Barren and eastern Edmonson Counties. It closely follows the Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike & Hike Trail. [2]
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 ...
Mammoth Cave Parkway / KY 255 south to I-65 south – Park City: End concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway; begin concurrency with KY 255: Barren: Highland Springs: 161.890: 260.537: KY 255 north – Frozen Niagara Entrance, Mammoth Cave Tours/Visitors Center: End concurrency with KY 255: Cave City: 165.303: 266.029: I-65 south – Nashville ...
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 ...
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.
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