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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. 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 ...

4. Diamond Caverns - Wikipedia

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   On July 14, 1859, a slave of landowner Jessie Coats discovered a pit in the floor of a valley near the road to Mammoth Cave. The cave was given its name when the first visitor thought the calcite formations looked like diamonds. [1] The next day, a survey crew entered the newly discovered cave, and works on turning it into an attraction began.

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

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   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.

6. Cincinnati Museum Center - Wikipedia

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   The exhibit, titled "The Cave", was first installed as "The Cavern" in the museum's Gilbert Avenue location in 1967, ten years after the location opened. It was reinstalled in Union Terminal around 1994. It was designed to resemble Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system in the

7. File:Stephen Bishop 1842 Map of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - Hi ...

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   English: This is a high-res .jpg file (from The Tennessee State Library and Archives' Tennessee Virtual Archive) of the map of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave that was drawn from memory in 1842 by Stephen Bishop, an enslaved man who worked as a guide at the Cave. It was then published in 1845 by Morton & Griswold in Alexander Clark Bullitt's "Rambles ...

8. List of caves in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave; Great Onyx Cave; Great Saltpetre Cave; Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost River Cave; Mammoth Cave; Martin Ridge Cave System; Oligo-Nunk Cave System

9. List of longest caves in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Longest cave in the world. 2 Jewel Cave: 353.69 km (219.8 mi) [4] [5] near Custer, South Dakota: Jewel Cave National Monument: 3 Wind Cave: 266.8 km (165.8 mi) [6]