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Veterans' Day - Fee Free Day
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 37.186920, -86.101200
Tours begin at the Mammoth Cave Visitor Center
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In honor of Veterans' Day, Mammoth Cave National Park is offering free Mammoth Passage Tours on Monday, November 11, 2019. Along the Mammoth Passage tour, participants will pass through the Rotunda where in 1922 a monument was placed as part of the American Legion Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, to honor the fallen of the Great War, now known as World War I. Inside the monument, thirty-five states each placed a list of the fallen soldiers from their respective states. In 1929, a second monument was placed by the America War Mothers to also honor the fallen of the Great War. The monuments were rededicated by the park and local veterans’ organizations in 2017, and continue to honor the soldiers who died during that devastating conflict.
Mammoth Passage tour participants must pick up their free tickets in the visitor center beginning at 8:30 a.m. before going on a tour. Tickets are non-reservable and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. The ¾-mile, 1¼-hour Mammoth Passage tour is limited to 70 people, and requires a walk down and up a steep path to the Historic Entrance and 125 steps. The tour explores a vast canyon passageway and discusses a 19th-century saltpeter mining operation and the geologic origins of Mammoth Cave.
The tour is scheudled for the following times:
9:30, 10:30, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00
Come on out and enjoy your park for free!
Reservation or Registration: No
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NPS Photo / Jackie Wheet