National Park Guide

Mammoth Cave Field Guide

A complete planning guide to Mammoth Cave National Park. Covers how to book the park's ticketed, ranger-led cave tours, from the Historic Tour and Frozen Niagara to the strenuous Wild Cave Tour, the geology behind the cave's record-setting scale, above-ground hikes like Cedar Sink and Green River Bluffs, paddling the Green River, the history of Stephen Bishop and the cave's 19th-century saltpeter mining and tuberculosis hospital, and camping options at Mammoth Cave Campground, Maple Springs, and Houchin Ferry.

What's inside

• ✓How to book the park's ticketed cave tours before they sell out
• ✓Choosing a tour: Historic, Frozen Niagara, Domes and Dripstones, or Wild Cave
• ✓Above-ground hikes, Green River paddling, and the park's cave-adapted wildlife
• ✓The history of Stephen Bishop, saltpeter mining, and the cave's tuberculosis hospital