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Free Weekends AND Free Tours At Mammoth Cave National Park

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June 26, 2009

Pair up free entrance to national parks with free tours at Mammoth Cave National Park. NPS photo.

Not only can you gain free entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park on two more weekends this summer, but you'll also be able to partake in some free tours of the cave.

This past weekend the park offered the Discovery and Mammoth Passage cave tours free of charge to all comers. The offer will be repeated July 18-19, and August 15-16 as a gesture by the National Park Service to help citizens enjoy the outdoors.

“We consider the weekend a great success,” said Superintendent Patrick Reed. “The purpose was to give folks a break in these tough economic times. Some came out specifically because of the free tours, others who were already here added a free tour to their visit. Both Saturday and Sunday showed significant increases over the number of people who visited on the same weekend last year.”

On Saturday and Sunday (June 20-21), 7,151 people toured Mammoth Cave, compared to 5,157 people on the same weekend in 2008, a 28 percent increase. The park ran the self-guided Discovery tour through the busiest part of the day, and then added extra Mammoth Passage tours to ensure all visitors would have an opportunity to go on one of the free tours.

“One woman told us the tours added to a cheap summer get-a-way she planned for her grandchildren,” said Mike Adams, Mammoth Cave’s chief of interpretation. “She said they came to this area to use discounted tickets at one attraction, then came to Mammoth Cave for the free tours. We hope others will follow her example when we offer the free tours again July 18-19 and August 15-16.”

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Comments

Submitted by admin on June 26, 2009 - 8:13pm.

While it was an interesting article, no where did you mention where Mammoth Cave National Park is! I had to go to a search engine for help...did you just figure that all readers are from East of the Mississippi?


Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on June 26, 2009 - 11:25pm.

If you click on the highlighted park name it takes you directly to the park's website, which tells you right up top where the park is located.


Submitted by cyndi spear-duncan on August 7, 2009 - 7:53pm.

The cave is a great attraction, but the park itself is an awesome and magnificent little gem. I of course have been on more than one cave tour, but its the park I love so dearly.


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