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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 ...
The Whigpistle Cave System is a large cave near Mammoth Cave, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.The system, composed of the interconnected Whigpistle, Martin Ridge, and Jackpot Caves, has been mapped to over 66 kilometers (41 mi), and is currently the United States' thirteenth-longest cave.
System Length Location coordinates Discovery Associated parks, protected areas 1 Mammoth Cave: 685.6 km (426.0 mi) [3] [4] near Brownsville, Kentucky, United States: 1791 ...
Mammoth Cave is the longest-known cave system in the world. “There are caves that have larger rooms, but we are the longest,” Schroer said. “We are currently mapped at 426 miles.
The world's longest cave system just got a little bit longer, as Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park announced 6 more miles have been discovered.
The Fisher Ridge Cave System is a cave system located in Hart County, Kentucky, United States, near Mammoth Cave National Park.As of November 2019 it had been mapped to a length of 130.001 miles (209.216 km), making it the fifth-longest cave in the United States and the tenth-longest in the world.
Mammoth Cave, according to the park service, is “the longest known cave in the world,” featuring 426 miles of mapped passageways. The park is about 100 miles southwest of Lexington.
System Length Location Coordinates Associated parks, protected areas Access 1 Mammoth Cave: 685.6 km (426.0 mi) [2] [3] near Brownsville, Kentucky: Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve.