#Mammoth Cave National Park

[hellokittykiller]

revolving doors into cave system

#shoutout to the super kind rangers that let me stay to take the pics of the door after everyone exited #there should be a term for fear of these things #submechanophobia #but for things above water #but not mechanophobia either #because its not super big #anyways tags. #cave #caves #my pics #cavecore #mammoth cave national park #aesthetic #nostalgia #liminal #liminal spaces #nature #naturecore #photography #weirdcore #dreamcore #surreal #this felt unreal

[t0mserv0]

This one frame is probably the single funniest frame of any piece of media I've ever seen in my life. I was close to puking from laughing so hard. So few pixels have never brought me so much joy. And from there, it only got funnier.

The jacket. The microphone. The canoes. The dumpsters. The appliances, most of which don't work. The concrete picnic tables of which you must buy them all. The overgrown forklift. The buildings of which you were responsible of disassembly and removal. The "pretty classy" outhouse. The beautiful boarded up church with the beautiful stained glass windows filmed in the dark. The hard cut to black.

Few things have ever brought me so close to God. I am indebted to whoever found this.

Thank you.

#best of the worst #red letter media #mammoth cave national park

[squareincube]

Cavern

Inspired by kentucky route zero (its the mammoth cave national park!!)

#illustration #hatching #anthro #furry #kentucky route zero #mammoth cave national park #mammoth cave #illustrations #brutalism #squareincube

[dinoswordsb]

Mammoth Cave, KY (1/2)

#hal hour #caves #caveposting #mammoth cave national park #gothic avenue tour specifically i will post the other pics later i took a lot #I. SORRY A COUPLE ARE BLURRY. WE WERE CONSTANTLY MOVING

[orkowhereheshouldntbe]

[ID in ALT!]

Orko at Mammoth Cave National Park. Go in the dark.

#orkowhereheshouldntbe #real life #mammoth cave national park

[carcharhinus-hemiodon]

was anybody going to tell me they found a 330 million year old fossilized shark head in mammoth cave national park (kentucky) or was I just supposed to find this out myself

#all jokes all jokes #but that's super cool! #sharks #fossils #mammoth cave national park

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: Kentucky

Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave (2002) by Coleen O'Connor Olson with the assistance of Charles Hanion; illustrations by Roger Brucker

As if the world's longest cave system wasn't already scary enough for us claustrophobes: it's also possibly haunted! From the preface:

Among the many intriguing mysteries of Mammoth Cave are sightings of ghostly figures that appear now and again along major tour routes. Perhaps they watch us through a portal in time, long separated from the physical world in which the living reside. They belong to the shadows and darkness of the cave world, and to the human mind, which catches glimpses of these denizens of the netherworld. Perhaps they are simply projections of our own fears and imaginations. The stories in this book provide glimpses into the shadowy world of Mammoth Cave. Illumination is provided only by the flame of our desire to know what the cave itself knows.

If you'd like to read more Kentucky ghost stories, check out

Authentic Kentucky Ghost Stories (1970) ed. by Stan W. Lemaster, photos by Burt Powell

Ghosts Across Kentucky (2000) by William Lynwood Montell

Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky (2001) by William Lynwood Montell

If you'd like to learn more about Mammoth Cave, check out

The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky (1980) by J. Hoyes Panton

The Story of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky: A Brief History (1959) by Margaret M. Bridwell

A Pictorial Study of Mammoth Cave and Mammoth Cave National Park (1972) by National Park Concessions, Inc.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #haunted states of america #ghosts #kentucky #books #mammoth cave #mammoth cave national park #caves

[rabbitcruiser]

American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accepted a rival state government’s pronouncement that declared Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy on December 10, 1861.  

#American Civil War #US Civil War #Kentucky #10 December 1861 #travel #anniversary #US history #summer 2016 #Mammoth Cave National Park #flora #woods #landscape #cityscape #original photography #vacation #Cave City #Wigwam Village Inn 2 #Kentucky's Stonehenge #Munfordville #Bowling Green #architecture #National Corvette Museum #tourist attraction #landmark #roadside atrraction #USA

[hellokittykiller]

#my pics #cave #caves #cavecore #nature #mammoth cave national park #weirdcore #photography #aesthetic #naturecore #dreamcore #cave tour #cave tours

[mknstrm]

Had a short hike last weekend, enjoying the outdoors.

#hike #hiking #nature #mammoth cave national park

[travelella]

Mammoth Cave National Park, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

#Mammoth Cave #Mammoth Cave National Park #National Park #Kentucky #KYNature #USA #North America #NationalPark

[satashiiphotography]

It sure gets dark down here….. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky May 2023

Photo credit @satashiiphotography

#iphone photos #mammoth cave national park #landscape photography #spelunking

[ainawgsdoutdoors]

Mammoth Cave historic tour.

#cave tour #mammoth cave national park #mammoth cave

[npsparkclp]

Explore the Mammoth Cave Core Visitor Services Area Cultural Landscape

More than a cave!

The natural features of Mammoth Cave National Park include the longest known cave system in the world, surrounding river valleys, karst topography, and rolling, wooded hillsides. The cultural landscape is also a record of a 12,000-year conversation between people and land spanning the first explorations by prehistoric people, mineral mining, early homesteading, preparations for the War of 1812, and 200 years of tourism leading to development of the national park.

Read the article

In addition to providing an overview of the history and features of the landscape, this article introduces the Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) for Mammoth Cave Core Visitor Services Area. The CLR is a planning document that guides treatment, now and into the future. It aims to balance protection and enhancement of the site’s historic integrity with visitor access and interpretation needs, within a broader framework of sustainable land management.

Discover more about Mammoth Cave National Park

Find more profiles of NPS cultural landscapes

#cultural landscape #cultural resources #NPS #FindYourPark #CLR #Mammoth Cave National Park #cave #history #landscape history #preservation

[cgandrews3]

#alaska #bats #canada #candice gaukel andrews #climate change #cop 15 #environment #glacier national park #global warming #grand teton national park #great smoky mountains national park #grizzly bears #mammoth cave national park #mount rainier national park #natural habitat adventures #nathab #natural habitats #nature #nature lovers #north cascades national park #science #science and environment #scientific research #south america #u.s. national parks #wallace stegner #west #wildlife corridors #yellowstone national park #world wildlife fund

[greyphitus]

Birds I have seen.

#bird #wild turkey #pileated woodpecker #mammoth cave national park #my photos