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Mammoth Cave headquarters and visitor center is located on Mammoth Cave Parkway. The park can be accessed directly from I-65 at Exit 48. The parkway connects with Kentucky Route 70 from the north and Kentucky Route 255 from the south within the park.
When the Mammoth Cave Parkway first opened (as a local road), portions of the road — along with Cave City Road (also known as East Entrance Road), a small piece of Green River Ferry Road, and all of Joppa Ridge Road west of the visitor center — were part of the original alignment of KY 70 from 1929 until the 1970s. [5]
Kentucky Route 218 begins at the unincorporated Hart County community of Northtown west of Interstate 65 (I-65). It is the beginning of state maintenance as the main road west of Northtown is actually a locally maintained road (Flint Ridge Road) that leads to the Mammoth Cave National Park, and would provide a direct route to the park's visitor center in Edmonson County. [2]
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.
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Mammoth Cave: 14.352: 23.097: Mammoth Cave Parkway west / KY 70 west – Brownsville, Mammoth Cave Tours/Visitor Center: Northern end of concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway; western end of KY 70 concurrency: Barren: Highland Springs: 15.718: 25.296: KY 70 east (Mammoth Cave Road) to I-65 / KY 90 – Cave City, Glasgow
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KY 70 / KY 255 north in Mammoth Cave KY 70: 2.5 4.0 KY 70 / KY 255 north in Mammoth Cave KY 70 west in Mammoth Cave none: 3.5 5.6 KY 70 west in Mammoth Cave Mammoth Cave Visitor Center Concurrent with KY 255 and KY 70 on its southern end. Mostly maintained by the National Park Service as most of it is located within Mammoth Cave National Park.