• Key Information

  • Mammoth Cave National Park

  • Type
    Caverns
  • Length
    420 miles
  • Learning Point
  • Mammoth Cave is the world's largest known cave system, stretching many miles under various counties of the state of Kentucky. It may still be larger, and as investigations into other nearby cave systems have continued to reveal more and more connections into Mammoth Cave.
  • Project
  • Draw one or more of the caves and caverns of Mammoth Cave.
  • Location
  • Located in
    Edmonson, Hart, and Barren counties, Kentucky, United States
  • Fun Facts
  • The stories of the discovery of the caves be Eurpeans are difficult to establish, especially as various "separate" caves are now known to be linked together.
  • There is evidence of burials by natives long before Europeans arrived in America.
  • The cave system developed in limestone strata that is capped with sandstone, making the cave system very stable.