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Mammoth Cave is located about 30 minutes outside Bowling Green, Kentucky by car. According to the park’s website, prehistoric seas deposited limestone in the area around 325 million years ago.
Western Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world. As of fall 2017, 412 miles worth of passages are known and mapped. Mammoth Cave has relatively little speleothem ("cave formations"), which refers to all secondary mineral deposits in a cave.
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 ...
According to the National Park Foundation it’s Mammoth Cave and it sits in south central Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and 10 miles inside the cave are open to the public.
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Mammoth Cave National Park has attracted visitors for thousands of years. Here’s why you should visit, too. Look beneath the surface to fully appreciate Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park
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