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Natural PlacesSite Name: Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 36.991 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Cave City, Kentucky
Latitude: 37.191000N  Longitude: 86.1039W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : "Frozen Niagara", Mammoth Caves, Kentucky Image copyright: Peter Rivera, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave in Edmonson County, Kentucky, in Mammoth Cave National Park. The location marks the Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world. The area was known to the Paleo Indian peoples, but people of the Archaic Age entered the cave through this large natural entrance.

Native people went into the cave during the Archaic and Early Woodland Ages.
Evidence from the tools, torches, and markings on walls and ceilings indicates that they were collecting gypsum and other minerals found in the cave. The cave doesn't appear to have been used as a dwelling site for any extended period of time. These early visitors to the cave left a other signs of their visits including baskets and shoes, woven from twine. In the 1830's and 40's several somewhat mummified bodies were found and promptly taken away for traveling shows. When I was a child (over 30 years ago) a skeleton of "Lost John" was displayed in glass case in these passages. (In more recent years the remains of the lost soul have been removed from the idle gaze of the tourists in accordance with Federal law and changed sensibilities.)

This area of the cave can be visited on the Historic Tour, one of several ticketed tours offered of the huge cave system. Mammoth is known for huge underground rooms and passages. The Historic Tour goes through these types of areas, generally "dry" and without the spectacular cave formations created by water. The Violet City Lantern tour has included a viewing of prehistoric drawings on rock surfaces. Others tours of more colorful (but less historic) areas are also available. The Historic Tour is available year round. The greatest numbers of tours are offered in the summer months although this is the time of year most visited. Tickets can be purchased at the site but can also be scheduled in advance, to make certain of availability.

The park is also the location of multiple Archaic and Woodland site on the surface, but the locations are not easily available in the public record to protect them from looters. The National Park also offers hiking, camping, meals, cabin and hotel lodging. There are also many privately owned and operated caves in the area outside the park. Several of these area caves are also known to have had prehistoric visitors.

It is a World Heritage Site. park website
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Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Historic Entrance (Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA) 7 Western Kentucky Image copyright: James St. John (James St. John), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Mammoth Cave Visitor Center @ Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky Image copyright: daveynin, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Mammoth Cave, KY - Frozen Niagara Mammoth Cave National Park, north of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Image copyright: Stanislav Vitebskiy (Stanislav Vitebskiy), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Kentucky2014 Mostly around Mammoth Caves National Park Image copyright: adrim0 (Adrian Moy), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Lasiurus borealis (mummified red bat) (Holocene; Gothic Avenue, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA) 3 Lasiurus borealis Müller, 1776 - subfossil red bat in the Holocene of Kentucky, USA. This is a desiccated red bat in western Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, the longest cave on Earth. As of fall 2017, 412 miles have been explored and mapped. Multiple species of bats were formerly abundant in Mammoth...

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Kentucky2014 Mostly around Mammoth Caves National Park Image copyright: adrim0 (Adrian Moy), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Mammoth Cave, Historic Tour Image copyright: Jeff Kubina (Jeff Kubina), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Bulbous travertine stalagmite with summit dissolution holes (Edwards Avenue, Great Onyx Cave, Flint Ridge, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA) 3 Bulbous travertine stalagmite with summit dissolution holes on the floor of a giant canyon passage in Great Onyx Cave. Great Onyx Cave is located in the northern part of Flint Ridge in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA. It has 8 miles...

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons : Kentucky2014 Mostly around Mammoth Caves National Park Image copyright: adrim0 (Adrian Moy), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave Kentucky submitted by Creative Commons

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Mammoth Cave by Anonymous on Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Mammoth Cave is the most extensive cave system in the whole world, with more than 365 surveyed miles of cave passageways, which discover till now. In 1941 status the mammoth caves were changed to a National park as a U.S. National Park in the central Kentucky, encompassing portions of the Mammoth Cave.
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