Trudging through the dark with a dim lantern, a remarkable black man named Stephen Bishop tirelessly explored the world's ...

National parks. It seems post-COVID, we can't get enough of the outdoors and the natural beauty of America. Kentucky boasts one national park (Mammoth Cave) and two national historical parks (Abraham ...

Mammoth Cave National Park may be getting more mammoth. A bill to expand the park boundaries by more than 500 acres was introduced in Congress last week. The Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary ...

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Mammoth Cave has been captivating imaginations for thousands of years. “Obviously, the geology is amazing. It's what (first) brought people here and what brings people back to study this region,” said ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (WBKO/Gray News) - A national park in Kentucky seems to be taking recent criticism in stride. Mammoth Cave National Park found itself ranked among the “most disappointing” U.S.

Mammoth Cave National Park plans to start improvements this fall on an underground trail with funding from the Great American Outdoors Act. The park said in a statement that it will receive about $6.5 ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Archeologists on a mission to see where a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system goes are uncovering 19th and 20th-century artifacts in the historical dig. This collapsed ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is Kentucky's lone national park. However, it isn't the only cave in Kentucky, or even the area. There are even more caves near the park and around the state than the caves ...