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Mammoth Cave National Park
Photo Gallery
Below
Images from below the surface of Mammoth Cave National Park
Ruins of Karnak inside Mammoth Cave along the Historic tour route, taken from the tower at Mammoth Dome (during the WKYU-PBS Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder shoot).
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Flowstone inside Mammoth Cave, in the Frozen Niagara section. Photo taken during the WKYU-PBS Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder shoot.
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Park guide Jackie Wheet and two visitors look at the saltpeter leaching vats in the Rotunda, in Mammoth Cave.
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Mammoth Dome, inside Mammoth Cave along the Historic tour route, taken from the Mammoth Dome tower (during the WKYU-PBS Mammoth Cave:A Way to Wonder shoot).
Mammoth Dome
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The Frozen Niagara, a flowstone, or travertine, formation inside Mammoth Cave.
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Broadway, inside Mammoth Cave along the Historic tour route, taken from the top of the Corkscrew looking toward the Rotunda (during the WKYU-PBS Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder shoot).
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Cave crayfish (Oronectes pellucidus) are found in the underground streams of Mammoth Cave. Taken in Logsdon River during the WKYU-PBS Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder shoot.
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Wild Caving
image of visitors crawling on a Wild Cave tour inside Mammoth Cave
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Wild Cave tour
photo of guide Taylor Harlow peeking through the Bare Hole on the Wild Cave tour inside Mammoth Cave.
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Wild Cavers
A Wild Cave Tour walks through Cleaveland Avenue in Mammoth Cave.
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Rotunda
Tour group in the Rotunda room inside Mammoth Cave.
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Dismal Hollow in Mammoth Cave
Dismal Hollow in Mammoth Cave
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1812 pipes
Wooden pipes inside Mammoth Cave used in a saltpetre mine.
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