Saturday, July 16, 2011

Cave Country

View from our campsite in Cave Country RV Park, Cave City, KY.  Manicured park surrounded by corn fields.

Here’s a look at the view from our campsite at Cave Country RV Park in Cave City, Kentucky.  It is a nicely landscaped and well maintained facility located in the middle of a huge cornfield.

The big attractions in the area are the Mammoth Cave National Park and GM’s Corvette factory and National Corvette Museum.  We opted to not go to either while we were here, although we did pass by them on the highway.  After all, we have seen, even driven, Corvettes before and we’ve all walked through quite a few caverns.

Something we had never done, until today, was ride a boat down a rushing river inside a cave.  That is the attraction of the Lost River Cave Tour, and it was well worth the price of admission.

Looking over the dam at the end point of the boat tour.  From here the cave (and the river) splits.  One side has only been explored for 6 1/2 miles.  The other comes back out of the ground and eventually flows into the Barren River which feeds into the Mississippi.

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