Mammoth Cave Kentucky

We Stopped  for a day at Cave City Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park.

 We  took two tours each taking 2 hours. The first was Gothic Avenue and was on level one of the five levels. Here early visitors wrote their names with candles and the writing still visible today. It was interesting to read the names of those who visited the cave in the mid 1800s.

Later in the day we took the Historic tour which went down to level 4 and traveled 2.5 miles. We walked through narrow passageways and across deep pits.

  

The cave has over 400 miles of caverns at five different levels. While the cave is impressive we did not find the spectacular colors of those found in Carlsbad Caverns. After 4 hours down in the cave we were happy to be on the surface.