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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 ...
Counties to the north and east of this boundary are in the Eastern Time Zone, while counties to the south and west are in the Central Time Zone. 30% of the area in Eastern Time Zone is further west than areas to the south. This progression to the west is further continued into Indiana.
Chaumont is located about 7 miles (11 km) west of Cave City, and 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Park City at the present-day junction of Kentucky Route 70 (KY 70) and KY 255; [15] portions of both highways west and south of Chaumont are currently considered a part of the Mammoth Cave Parkway. At the time that the town dissolved, KY 255 was the ...
Get the Mammoth Cave National Park, KY local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Brownsville is a home rule-class city in Edmonson County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the county seat and is a certified Kentucky Trail Town. [4] The population was 836 at the time of the 2010 census, [5] down from 921 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Bowling Green metropolitan area. [6] It is just outside Mammoth Cave ...
Salts Cave Archeological Site, near Munfordville, Kentucky, is a cave and archeological site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] The cave is part of Mammoth Cave National Park. [2] It has also been known as West's Cave and as Old Salts Cave. It was listed for its information potential. [1]
KY 70 was re-routed to its current alignment in the 1970s. The road became maintained by the National Park Service once Mammoth Cave became a national park. In 2004, both of Mammoth Cave Parkway's junctions with KY 70 were reconstructed just before the completion of the Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike and Hike Trail.
I-65 is maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), along with all other Interstate, U.S., and state highways in Kentucky. Along its 137.32-mile (221.00 km) length in Kentucky, [1] major attractions I-65 passes include the National Corvette Museum, Mammoth Cave National Park, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, and Fort Knox before entering the state's largest metropolitan ...