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2. You have to look beneath the surface to fully appreciate ...

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   The first known formal tour of Mammoth Cave was given in 1816, long before it became part of the National Park Service in 1941. One of Mammoth Cave’s most famous early guides was an enslaved man ...

3. Mammoth Cave National Park - Wikipedia

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   Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...

4. Stephen Bishop (cave explorer) - Wikipedia

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   Stephen Bishop (c. 1821 – 1857) was an American cave explorer and self-taught geologist known for being one of the first people to explore and map Mammoth Cave in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is regarded as the longest cave system in the world and Bishop's map of the cave, hand-drawn from memory off-site in 1842, was included in a ...

5. Great Onyx Cave - Wikipedia

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   Great Onyx Cave is unusual in that it has not yet been connected to nearby Mammoth Cave; [1] it is the only major Flint Ridge cave which has yet to be connected with the Flint Ridge Cave System, [2] despite exploration efforts. [5] In fact, passages in the Flint Ridge Cave System pass beneath surveyed passages in Great Onyx Cave. [6]

6. Patricia Crowther (caver) - Wikipedia

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   Later that year, William would go on to create Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first examples of interactive fiction, based on his caving experiences with Pat in the Mammoth Cave system as a way to connect with his daughters after the divorce. [4] Pat first encountered the game at a Boston meeting of the Cave Research Foundation in 1976 or ...

7. Mammoth Cave Parkway - Wikipedia

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   Mammoth Cave Campground: Campground and Caver's Camp Store: 8.2: 13.2: Mammoth Cave Hotel Road: Mammoth Cave Hotel Entrance: 8.3: 13.4: Flint Ridge Road east – Dennison Ferry: Connects to KY 218; Flint Ridge Road closed during winter months: 8.4: 13.5: Mammoth Cave Tours/Visitor's Center Woodland Cottages: Northern terminus in the Visitor's ...