Close to the historic entrance, the Mammoth Cave Visitor Center houses the cave tour ticket counter and is the departure point for all cave tours. Visitors will also find an interpretive area, a ...

CAVE CITY, Ky. — Mammoth Cave National Park has reopened one self-guided cave tour, officials said. The tour in the cave's historic section is the only one currently accessible because of social ...

The cave, located off Exit 22 of Interstate 65, has one of the largest cave openings in the Eastern United States. It's historic underground boat tours run year-round.

All Mammoth Cave tours can be reserved at Recreation.gov, the National Park Service's reservation website. You must have a ticket to enter the cave, and it is strongly advised to book in advance ...

Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park, Inc., is the official philanthropic partner of Mammoth Cave National Park.

On the popular “Historic Tour,” visitors take a winding two-mile (3.2-kilometer) hike that leads them some 310 feet (95 meters) below the surface. It’s not a stroll in the park.

As our large group for the River Styx Tour approached Mammoth Cave’s historic entrance, I could feel the chilly draft. Water — which has shaped so much of this hidden world — drizzled down ...

Tours began here some 200 years ago. At that time, slaves often served as guides. One of those guides, Stephen Bishop, discovered an underground river and a mammoth dome within the cave.

On the popular "Historic Tour," visitors take a winding two-mile hike that leads them some 310 feet below the surface. It's not a stroll in the park. Participants have to chug up and down 440 stairs.

Mammoth entered recorded history around 1798 when John Houchins,a Kentucky homesteader, shot and wounded a bear, then followed thecritter into a natural cave entrance that is still used today.