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Mammoth Cave National Park
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Stalactites hang from the cave ceiling and stalagmites rise from the floor inside Mammoth Cave, with rough, textured rock formations illuminated by warm light. Map of North America highlighting the location of Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky, United States, marked with a red star to indicate its status as a World Heritage Site. The map shows international boundaries with Canada and Mexico and major surrounding bodies of water. Flint Ridge Cave System Land of Ten Thousand Sinks: Mammoth Cave Frozen Niagara geologic formations in Mammoth Cave National Park, west-central Kentucky.

Mammoth Cave National Park: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Mammoth Cave National Park. Oct 27, 2026
Add new Web site: NPS History Electronic Library and Archive - Mammoth Cave National Park (PDF). Jan 11, 2025
Add new Web site: National Geographic - This U.S. national park has the world's longest cave system—and an unusual history. Jun 07, 2024
Add new Web site: NPS History Electronic Library - Mammoth Cave National Park. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: USGS - Mammoth Cave National Park. Jul 20, 2023
Add new Web site: USGS - Geology of Mammoth Cave National Park. Apr 15, 2023
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Travel - Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, United States. Dec 12, 2016
Replaced photographs. Sep 04, 2015
Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Mammoth Cave National Park. Apr 04, 2014
Noted that Mammoth Cave and the Flint Ridge Cave System were connected to Roppel Cave in 1983. Sep 19, 2013
Length of the explored and mapped underground passages of the cave system changed from "more than 345 miles (555 km)" to "at least 400 miles (650 km)." Sep 19, 2013
Added photograph. Nov 14, 2011
Added the full date when it was established as a national park, July 1, 1941. Jun 22, 2011
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Adventure - Mammoth Cave National Park. Feb 17, 2009
Added new Web site: National Park Service - Mammoth Cave - Its Explorers, Miners,Archeologists, and Visitors.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Feb 09, 2007
Added new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Mammoth Cave National Park.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Feb 09, 2007
Added new Web site: Page Makers - Mammoth Cave National Park.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Feb 09, 2007
Added new Web site: Park Vision - Mammoth Cave National Park.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Feb 09, 2007
Added new Web site: Kentucky Caving - Mammoth Cave National Park.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Feb 09, 2007
Article revised. Jan 12, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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