Mammoth Cave Vacations, Mammoth Cave Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

My husband had spent a few minutes last night reading the tour descriptions on the park website and finally decided on the relatively short but sweet New Entrance Tour. George worried throughout the night and morning that perhaps this wasn't the "best" tour, i.e. the most scenic and hitting the cave highlights for newbies, since the person who took our reservation wasn't knowledgeable about Mammoth Cave.In the morning we stopped at one of several Cracker Barrels along the 90-mile route to Ma...

I got up early and got the laundry going while Dawn and Tyler got packed up and ready to leave.  The place was empty except for us, so we had the bathrooms and laundry rooms all to ourselves.  The manager of the place came over, because when we checked in after hours, I had written my credit card info on the night ticket, but forgot to put the expiration date and they couldn't process it.  Oops, sorry, not intentional! It didn't take us long to get all our stuff together ...

DAY 15 (7/9/08)Mammoth Caves and Hodgensville, KY10pm / 70∞ / sprinklingWith an early start today, we headed back to the caves to give it another shot. Today, we took the shortest, most introductory tour to the Frozen Niagara formation. My dad was able to complete this 1 mile hike and stair climb through the cave which was great. Unlike our caving experience the day before, this cave had less history but more stalactite and stalagmite formations. Pillars, columns and flows of rock format...