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National Parks Traveler Episode 129: Exploring Mammoth Cave National Park

Exploring Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. It was designated a national park in 1926 and fully established and opened in 1941 -- 80 years ago. At 412 miles, the cave itself is nearly twice as long as any other known cave system. Geologists believe there may even be a couple more hundred miles of undiscovered passageways. 

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #34: July Notables

In addition to celebrating Independence Day, we should also celebrate the July establishment of Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, and light a birthday candle for Stephen T. Mather, whose “vigorous efforts to build public and political support for the parks helped persuade Congress to create the National Park Service in 1916.” Test your knowledge about both park and man with this Quiz and Trivia #33.

Broadway Underground, Mammoth Cave National Park

a large cave room lit up to show a boardwalk running through the middle of it with a group of people walking along it in Mammoth Cave National Park

"Broadway, in Mammoth Cave. One of the most-visited parts of Mammoth Cave National Park, the passage called Broadway, or "Main Cave", is a vast subterranean river channel, long abandoned by the waters that formed it. Near left center on the cave floor lie pipes made of hollowed tulip poplar logs, remnants of the nitre mining during the War of 1812. This view looks toward Rotunda and the Historic Entrance."

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