Tricky tree trimming by Great Onyx Job Corps students
Posted: March 08, 2012 | posted by: Vickie Carson!
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Preparing to flush
Posted: January 24, 2012 | posted by: Vickie Carson!
The Mammoth Cave visitor center received a large delivery last week - a single package weighing more than four tons! It's a 30,000 gallon tank that will hold rain water collected from the roof of the building. According to Facilities Manager Steve Kovar, the rain water will be used to flush the toilets in the new visitor center. A one-inch rain will fill the tank, and a full tank will provide enough water to flush the building's toilets for three weeks. Toilets-flushed-by-rainwater are just one of the Sing Song Merrily Below
Posted: November 29, 2011 | posted by: Tres Seymour!
In the 1880s, a group of Cave visitors began a tradition still honored at Mammoth Cave National Park, the Cave Sing. On December 4, 2011, the 32nd annual commemoration of the Cave Sing will be held at In the Park Today
Posted: November 04, 2011 | posted by: Vickie Carson!
The Mammoth Cave Visitor Center rehabilitation project is moving along. This is Phase II, the second half of the rehab, which will include a large exhibit area, book store, offices, plus two shelters where visitors gather before departing the Visitor Center on their tours. Funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Phase II is scheduled for completion in 2012. The image above is the front of the Visitor Center and the image below is the rear of the Visitor Center. In the Park Today
Posted: October 27, 2011 | posted by: Tres Seymour!
The park is also offering special fall activities on Saturday, October 29th - a More.. Smoke-Writing
Posted: March 04, 2011 | posted by: Vickie Carson!
 The Register Room, in Gothic Avenue in Mammoth Cave, is a place where 19th-Century cave visitors paused to leave a memento of their visit in the form of names or initials smoked onto the smooth limestone ceiling with a candle on a long stick provided by their Guide. The names and dates form a remarkable historical record revealing that Mammoth Cave has drawn visitors from around the nation and across the seas.Many inscriptions appear backward, the result of having been smoked on while looking in a |
Mammoth Cave is one of the oldest tourist attractions in North America. Tours of Mammoth Cave have been offered since 1816.
Urban forestry students from Great Onyx Job Corps have been in the park the last few weeks trimming or removing hazardous trees. Their training has been most helpful in working around buildings and along the proposed route for Big Hollow Trail. 
Mammoth Cave was designated as a World Heritage Site for its natural wonders alone, but for more than 4,000 years human beings have been so intently fascinated with its mysteries that they've infused the Cave with an almost human spirit - a spirit echoed in art, in stories... and in song.
Orange, yellow, red, fuschia and burgundy colors abound in the park this week as Mammoth Cave National Park slips into autumn. Best drives to view colors in the park are along the Mammoth Cave Parkway, Brownsville Road, and Green River Ferry Road.