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We visited Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It is notable as the longest cave system in the world, with over 400 miles of passages.
Visitor center:
Mammoth cave has several guided tours available. We did the “Domes and Dripstones” tour, which required taking buses to a cave entrance:
Down into a sinkhole:
Cave entrance:
Looking down:
Underground ranger talk:
Not too bad a picture of me:
Lots of steps:
Historic graffiti:
Very flat cave ceiling:
Ranger talk area:
More steps:
The "Frozen Niagara" formation:
Vertical panorama of a dome:
An interesting cave, but we’ve seen nicer-looking ones. Just shows that size isn’t everything.