Visitors: 1,989,082 visitors in 1996 (480,177 cave visitations). Location: About 85 miles south of Louisville and 85 miles north of Nashville, near Interstate Highway 65. Flora and fauna: Mostly ...

It’s like entering another world that was built over tens of thousands of years. Caves offer an experience unlike any other, a chance to learn about the earth’s history and see the effect of the ...

In the lower cave chamber Froslie showed off dogtooth spar, a mineral deposit of calcite leached from the surrounding limestone from which the cave has eroded. The rumpled rock resembles row upon row ...

It’s one thing to engage kids in nature above ground. It’s quite another to engage them below ground. Our kids, like most kids, love nature. They love it even more when it’s rainy and they can stomp ...