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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Mammoth Cave Parkway north – Visitor Center/Cave Tours: Main entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park; beginning of concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway: 160.117: 257.683: 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 ...
Park City is a home rule-class city in Barren County, Kentucky, United States.The population was 614 at the 2020 census.It is the entrance to nearby Mammoth Cave National Park and to Diamond Caverns, a privately owned cave attraction.
The world's longest cave system just got a little bit longer, as Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park announced 6 more miles have been discovered.