MAMMOTH ADVENTURE; THE WORLD'S LONGEST CAVE SYSTEM, MAMMOTH CAVE IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY, LIES ONLY NINE HOURS FROM THE TRIAD.(TRAVEL)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: July 16, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

A person could easily get lost.

If it weren't for rangers at Mammoth Cave National Park, visitors might spend a lifetime trying to free themselves from the world's longest cave. They would wander along the hilly, loose-gravel paths, gawking at limestone formations, peering into deep caverns, staring up at 100-foot-high ceilings.

They would get caught in rinky-dinks, circular tunnels that fork off from the main trails. They might bump their heads on low-hanging ceilings, or gasp down below at canyons deep and wide. They would encounter bats and bugs, most of them blind, ...

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