Tag: Domes and Dripstones tour

Mammoth Cave and Lost River Cave

This morning we did our second tour of Mammoth Cave. This one was called the Domes and Dripstones tour.

Oh. My. God. It was awesome.

As usual, my photos will not do it justice. The first section of the tour was of the domes, which are deep vertical shafts.

The entrance to the cave was something out of Doctor Who. Just a steel door in the middle of the woods.
We descended hundreds of steps down the narrow vertical shafts.

Once we had gotten to the second level of the cavern system, we entered what our tour guide called the “and” portion of the tour.

When we got to this room, I took an ignominious tumble off a step and fell on some poor little Indian lady before landing on my back. How embarrassing!
That ceiling is natural rock, not man-made.

Eventually, we arrived at the “dripstones” portion of the tour.

Mammoth Cave is mostly a dry cave, which means that there aren’t that many stalactites, stalagmites, and flow stones, but this section does have them.

Lost River Cave

I talked Greg into one more cave experience before we leave Park City, Kentucky. So after lunch, we headed to Lost River Cave.

This cave tour involved a boat ride on an underground river. Unfortunately, the cavern was so dimly lit that almost none of the pictures from that part of the tour came out.

The first section of the boat tour involved an exceedingly low ceiling.

Tomorrow we head to Louisville, Kentucky.

This ends the cavern portion of our trip. There is another cavern in Louisville, but Greg refused to take a tour of it. 😆