Category: | National Park |
Address: | Kentucky, USA |
Phone: | +1 270-758-2180 |
Site: | nps.gov |
Rating: | 4.6 |
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Drew Mason
We had a blast at Mammoth Cave National Park. My wife, 3 year old son and I had originally planned to go to Lost River Cave in Bowling Green, KY but came to find out their cave was flooded! (There had been lots of heavy rains in the last few days there) So make sure to call ahead to Lost River Cave Tours. So we made the short and scenic drive up to Mammoth Cave which is largely unaffected by weather. When we got there around 2pm the visitor’s center was BUSY! We spoke to the ranger at the information desk about the different tours available, as there are many to choose from of varying distances and time. Come to find out that, all of the tours except the Self-Guided Discovery Tour. If there is a specific tour you want to go on I highly suggest going online and buying your tickets ahead of time! The self-guided tour was perfect for us with a young child, as it was a relatively short walk and it could take as long or as short as we wanted it to. The short walk from the visitors center to the cave entrance is paved and at a mild grade. As a bonus, we saw a deer grazing on our walk. A ranger met us at the top of the stairs and took our tickets and gave us a little background about the tour before we went down (and back up at then end) the 70 stairs to the cave entrance past a nice photo-op waterfall. Tip: It is 54 degrees (F) all the time so it would not hurt to bring a jacket if you plan to tour a while. The cave portion for the self-guided discovery tour does not have any cave formations, but is still nice to walk through and was fairly level and adequately lit for the most part. Our son had brought his explorer vest and flashlight so he had a great time “exploring the cave”. My wife and I enjoyed the educational displays and stops along that told about the exploration of the cave, various uses through time and the formation of the cave. (We saw no bats or other animals during our time in the cave.) We spent about 45 minutes in the cave before returning to the surface. We returned to the visitor’s center and made our way through the extremely nice museum. The museum detailed the history of the formation of the cave, the early explorers, the surrounding countryside (and sinkholes) , the settlers, then the development of the cave into a national park. There are audio recordings at each station and a very well done movie as well. At the end of the museum there is an informative section about the importance of environmental conservancy and its impact on the cave and local wildlife as well. The center also has two gift shops. The larger one is the actual National Park Gift Shop, and has lots of great informative books and toys, shirts, postcards, magnets, patches, etc. The second smaller gift shop in the open foyer area looked like it was run by the management company that runs the hotel. It had a small but different selection of shirts, patches, pencils, and jewelry available. We ended up getting several items from both. Make sure to make a donation to the park on your way out to help support the great ongoing work of this and other national parks. We all thoroughly enjoyed our visit at Mammoth Cave National Park. We just wish we had more time to enjoy some of the many attractions that they have to offer. With numerous types of cave tours, junior ranger programs, an onsite hotel, miles of hiking/biking/horse trails, canoeing/kayaking, RV and tent camping and plenty of site seeing there is something for everyone to enjoy the entire year round.
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Miroslaw Skodowski
Mammoth Cave National Park and exactly fragment caves there occurring visited May 26, 2013 with his wife, her sister and husband. We had two two-hour rounds, each of which contained the stretch of two miles, and the average of 460 degrees up and down. Impressions were amazing, corridors caves change over from the great halls that can accommodate hundreds of people on the narrow single transition. Although the group consisted of 124 persons is at times before and after me no one could see. Routes are well prepared, I recommend the New Entrance Tour containing in itself Frozeen Niagara Falls and Historic Tour. On holidays, when there is a lot of tourists can be problems with getting the tickets, so it is better to zarezerowc them before the internet and then pick up in the Visitor Center.
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kirk kvist
Just came from Mammoth Cave (3/25/13). The key is to book ahead, especially now that budget cuts will limit the variety of tours that will run. We went on the Historic and the New Entrance tours. The Historic tour shows off the size of the cave, and describes some of the early uses. The New Entrance has more of the stalactites and stalagmites (etc.), if you are looking for those. There is a little overlap in what you hear, but not what you see between the two. Our two guides, Mike and Terry, were great, showed a passion for what they do, and made us want to come back to visit again. We went to a "commercial" cave after this, and we came away with an even greater appreciation of the natural beauty and fantastic condition of Mammoth Cave. If I had known, I would have booked the river Styx or the lantern tour. Both were sold out. There were also some interesting looking weekend only tours. We may go back, and if we do, we will definitely book ahead one or both of these tours.
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Lisa Whalen
I have been here numerous times and I loved every minute of it I took my sons there today for the very first time and we had to run to keep up with the tour guide and if we slow down the tour guide behind us yelled for us to get moving I never got one picture never got to look at one thing never got to show my kids anyThing On the way up walking all those stairs my son had an asthma attack because he had to run through the cave we had to sit down so he could catch his breath and his heart but slow down and you know what happened the tour guide left us I was sitting on the steps with my son so he catch his breath and he just walked away I asked for a refund on the next tour that I bought tickets for they gave it to me but they kept $10 for each ticket for restocking fee I have never been so disappointed in my whole entire life I will never go back there again And people want to know why the national parks are losing money and Failing Right here is why