Mammoth Cave

Cave City, KY

Spring camping got away from me this year as my camper and truck both spent many weeks getting repairs, so I got a late start on camping this year. August 1-3 finally had a good looking forecast and a campground with availability that I was interested in, so I headed down to Singing Hills RV campground in Cave City, KY, which is just a few minutes down the road from Mammoth Cave National Park. It was a small park (no picture, sorry, I’m apparently out of practice), that wasn’t particularly nice, but was perfectly adequate and convenient to the National Park.

It wasn’t long after I had arrived there was a knock on my camper door, and two older folks were there, they were Grand Design (my trailer manufacturer) Ambassadors. Not really sure what that means, but they gave me a welcome to the Grand Design family gift pack, which included this hot pad which has the model of our trailers:

Mammoth Cave National Park

Wednesday morning I got up and hiked a five mile loop around Mammoth Cave National Park, which included Green River Bluff, Echo River Springs, Sinkhole, and Heritage Trail. It was a mostly wooded route, but there were a few sections that were accessible paths. There was a few nice view points, including this one of the Green River: There is also this entrance to Dixon Cave, which at one point was connected to Mammoth Cave but is no longer connected due to a sinkhole collapse, which created the main Historic Entrance that is still currently used. There were a lot of deer on the trail, and they were not afraid of humans at all:

Later that afternoon I did the Historic Tour of Mammoth Cave. At about two hours, it was plenty of time for me to see some of the highlights of the cave and get out. Even though it is Mammoth Cave, there were still plenty of sections that weren’t very comfortable for a tall person, including aptly named Fat Man’s Misery and Tall Man’s Agony. Overall it was a very cool experience, even for somebody that is not much of a cave person. There wasn’t much light through most of the tour, so most of my pictures aren’t very good, but this one of Giant’s Coffin came out pretty good: This room was also the place where they turned off all the lights and we got to experience total darkness (when people weren’t pulling their phones out and ruining the experience).