Sep 21 2024
Mammoth Cave National Park is best known for the immense labyrinth hidden beneath the rolling hills of central Kentucky, but its wildlife extends far beyond bats hanging from cave ceilings. Above ground, forests, ponds, sinkholes, streams, and the Green and Nolin rivers support white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, coyotes, foxes, beavers, owls, salamanders, turtles, snakes, and …
Sep 21 2024
Mammoth Cave National Park is famous for containing the world’s longest known cave system, but the human story beneath the hills of central Kentucky is almost as remarkable as the cave itself. Thousands of years before modern tourists entered Mammoth Cave, Indigenous people explored its passages by the light of river-cane torches. During the early …
Jul 02 2024
Mammoth Cave National Park protects a landscape that exists on two completely different levels. Above ground, forested hills surround the Green and Nolin rivers, hiking trails cross sinkhole country, deer and wild turkeys move through hardwood woodland, and historic churches and cemeteries preserve traces of communities that once filled the countryside. Beneath that landscape lies …
