We booked online and thought we would be able to directly head to the cave entrance and go inside. We made the huge mistake of showing up just a few minutes from our tour time. Obviously, we homeschool so we are all over that (hello Science class) and you will want to allow some time for exploring the visitors center, getting your National Parks Passport stamped, and using the restrooms before your tour. The Mammoth Cave National Park Visitor Center offers historic tours of Mammoth Caves but it also has many interactive exhibits that will be interesting for kids and adults of all ages. Please note that online booking closes at 9 pm CDT the night before the tour but depending on availability you can purchase same-day tour tickets at the visitors center. So my first advice would be to do your research on which tour you want and start searching for the dates you will be there. You can book online at the national park website.
In the summer many of the popular tours fill up weeks in advance. Start planning your cave tour as soon as you can. Getting Ready for Some Mammoth Cave Family Activites Mammoth Cave Tour Tips Book Your Mammoth Cave Tour EarlyĪnd by early, I mean earlier than you think. We had a lot of surprises on our visit, some good and some not so great so we took a lot of notes and combined all of our best mammoth cave tour tips to help others visiting Mammoth Caves with kids and especially toddlers. To say we jumped in blindly would be an understatement.
The truth is we did very little research about visiting Mammoth Cave with kids and did not know what to expect.
Having heard it was a great family activity made it an anticipated stop on our trip. We were close enough to hear about Mammoth Cave National Park and never made it in that direction. Before heading out on this full-time travel journey, we lived in Knoxville, TN. Mammoth Cave National Park is the largest and longest cave system in the world (at least that is known) with a surprising four hundred miles that have been explored and they find new parts of the cave constantly.
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