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About Your Park!

Mammoth Cave National Park was officially established in 1941 to protect the caves, hilly country, and scenic river valleys typical of south-central Kentucky. It later gained World Heritage Site designation in 1981 and became the core area of an International Biosphere Reserve in 1990. 

The park encompasses 52,830 acres in south central Kentucky, commemorating the diverse geological, biological and historical features associated with the longest cave in the world. The surface landscape highlights rare plants and dense forest, a diverse aquatic ecosystem in the Green and Nolin Rivers, and hallmark geologic features of a classic karst terrain.