Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Mammoth Cave National Park.


















  • latitude: approx. 37.18 degrees N
  • longitude: approx. 86.15 degrees W

  • Main attraction: The Mammoth Cave itself
  • The longest known cave consisting of 350 miles of passage way mapped.

  • If the second and third longest were combined, there would still be nearly 100 miles left over.







  • Activities: Boating, canoing, camping, hiking, bikeriding, sight-seeing, fishing, hunting, and horseback riding.







  • Cave Tours: You can choose a quick tour or an all day tour.

The Wild Tour - physical challenges: free climbing cave walls, lengthy CRAWLS through areas as tight at 9 in. high, walking in a CROUCHED position, HAND AND KNEE CRAWLS over jagged rocks and dirt, crawling THROUGH WET AREAS and twisting into and out of tight crawlway openings 42 in. wide.