Mammoth Cave offers fun, adventure

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Mammoth Cave offers fun, adventure

Postby Wayne Harrison » Aug 19, 2007 12:10 pm

By Danny Lee
Special to The Tennessean

(By Pam Spaulding, The Courier-Journal)
<img src="http://cmsimg.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=B2&Date=20070819&Category=FEATURES05&ArtNo=708190311&Ref=AR&Profile=1010&MaxW=160&border=0" align="left">MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. -- Just as explorers haven't gotten to the end of Mammoth Cave's 365-plus miles of caverns, visitors will find nearly endless opportunity for fun and discovery -- if they're willing to get dirty.

Cave-crawling and old-fashioned lantern tours let visitors experience the huge cavern as few visitors get to see it. And with plentiful trails, boating, horse riding and fishing opportunities on the surface, you can have a wonderful time at Mammoth Cave National Park above ground or below.

Belly-crawl, y'all

About 300 feet beneath the park's wooded hillsides there is something Ranger Joel Gillespie calls the "test hole." It is used, he explains, to "test your limits" at the very beginning of the 3-hour Introduction to Caving or 6-hour Wild Cave tours.

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