Last Thanksgiving we decided to do something a little different and travel with our good friends to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. I'm always up for a vacation and adventure. It was really fun to plan our trip together. Denise had some of the trip booked and Dave found a VRBO cabin that would fit both our families and I planned our tours.
Mammoth Cave is a little different than most National Parks because you need to book a tour to go into the Cave. Normally we don't have a tight timeline with hiking and exploring a National Park but at Mammoth we did. First thing the kids did was earn their Jr. Ranger Badges. Can they were these ranger fishing vests forever please!
Then after a short hike and lunch on a picnic tables it was time to go into the cave for the first time.
Our first tour was the Extended Historic Tour and one of our favorite parts was squeezing through fat mans misery and Tall Mans Agony near the end of the tour. We also go to enter and exit through a natural cave opening. The creepiest part was seeing the tuberculosis hospital that was used for treating TB patients. The only thing it probably successfully did was help infect visitors to the cave that were traveling through. I also remembered part way through the tour how hard it is to take good pictures inside a cave so I don't have many good ones to share.
Our second day in the park we went on the Domes and Dripstones Tour. The tour starts in a sink hole and you go down many steps and around every corner is pure beauty. It also ends with some awesome cave stalagmite and stalactite formations. This was my favorite tour of the trip. And a great way to spend Thanksgiving Day. We cooked a turkey breast and some stuffing and mashed potatoes and felt really thankful for our adventures and dinner.
Honestly Mammoth cave is a 1-2 day park. We felt like we went on the best of the tours that were available that time of year and parted ways the next morning.
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