Underground in Kentucky Mammoth Cave National Park
Written: Jun 09 '02 (Updated Jun 13 '02)
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Pros: The longest cave system in the world, history, roadside kitsch, “Honest Abe”, and antiques
Cons: Way off the beaten path
The Bottom Line: West-Central Kentucky has caves, history, antiques, sports cars, good food, and roadside “kitsch” what more could a traveler ask
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Less than one hundred miles south of Louisville is one of the seven wonders of the natural world and one of the first real tourist destinations in the United States. Mammoth Cave National Park is a truly magical place, an attraction that’s been packing in tourists since just after the War of 1812. The best way to experience Mammoth Cave is to think of it as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow of unique attractions along Dixie Highway.
U. S. Hwy 31W between Elizabethtown and Bowling Green is known as the Kentucky antiques highway. Dozens of small towns along “Old Dixie Highway” like Glendale, Hodgenville, Horse Cave, Cave City, Park City, and Smith’s Grove make the area one of the best in the country for antique shoppers. Hundreds of Mom & Pop antique stores filled with nineteenth century furniture, local pottery, antique weapons, Kentucky quilts, Civil War artifacts, and thousands of charming one of a kind treasures attract savvy antique shoppers every summer. West Central Kentucky is easily worth a week, but can be seen comfortably in three days. From Louisville, Kentucky head south on Interstate Highway 65 and a few miles south of Elizabethtown exit the freeway when you see the “Historic Glendale” sign.
Glendale
Glendale is a charming little railroad village that hasn’t changed since the 1920’s, there's a real general store, dozens of antique shops, a couple of wonderful bed & breakfasts, and a superb country restaurant where tourists can eat a delicious lunch in an authentic early twentieth century railroad hotel.
The Whistle Stop
Glendale’s main claim to fame is located in what was until 1979 the town’s hardware store (in an earlier incarnation the building was the village’s railroad hotel). The Whistle Stop Restaurant started out (1n 1975) serving sandwiches to local farmers in town for the afternoon to buy hardware, visit the bank, or run by the Grocery store. After almost thirty years in business the restaurant now takes up two stories of the former hardware store. There are often crowds (word of mouth advertising has made the Whistle Stop the most popular restaurant in a fifty-mile radius of Glendale) so you may have to wait for a table. Don’t miss the Country Ham, the white bean soup, or the flowerpot bread. The Whistle Stop's Peach Cobbler is generally recognized as the best in the Bluegrass. The Whistle Stop is on Main Street, right beside the railroad tracks, in the center of Glendale. (270) 369-8586
If the Whistle Stop is crowded, leave your name with the hostess and spend an hour getting acquainted with one of Kentucky’s most charming little towns. Across Main Street from the restaurant is the Glendale General Store (which is easily worthy of a couple of photographs)check out the old time ambience and after a short visit and a cold Dr. Pepper, return to Main Street. Both sides of Main Street are lined with an eclectic collection of shops selling Kentucky crafts (pottery, baskets, quilts, etc.) and antiques. About two blocks up Main Street, on warm summer afternoons, you can visit with an Amish family selling handmade Amish baskets right in front of the old village church.
My friend Bill Thomas, a well known photographer, photo/writing workshop leader, and the author of more than 25 books was born and raised in Glendale. Bill’s photographs have appeared in Life, National Geographic, Audubon, and other nationally known magazines. In 1976 Bill was given the prestigious National Geographic Society Award for his photographic work for the magazine. The farm where Bill Thomas grew up is just a couple of miles out of town. It is now called the Oakbrook Farm Center for the Arts. The fields, woods, and creek where Bill played as a child are now a 40-acre wildlife refuge where Bill conducts photographic workshops and writing seminars in the spring and fall. For more information call (270) 769-1823. From Glendale, follow scenic KY Hwy 222 (east) to Hodgenville, the birthplace of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.
The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
In the center of Hodgenville is the Lincoln Museum which features historic artifacts and educational displays on the life on the President who saw the United States through its greatest crisis as a nation, the Civil War. Just outside of town you can visit the Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site. President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the huge edifice in 1911. Thomas Lincoln, Abe’s father, bought the property in 1808 just a few months before the modest country lawyer who would become our country’s sixteenth President was born on February 12, 1809. The homestead was called Sinking Spring Farm, and was Abe’s home for about two years. The shrine has 56 steps (one for each year of Lincoln’s life) that lead visitors up to the building. Inside is the log cabin that may be the humble structure where Lincoln was born. The Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site is free. 2995 Lincoln Farm Road (270) 358-3137
I took one of my favorite autumn landscape photographs at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. Lincoln was known during his Illinois political campaigns as the “the rail-splitter” a reference to his ability to split long logs into “rails” which were used to construct fences in the early nineteenth century. There are several decorative split rail fences surrounding the site. On a visit in late October with my wife, I noticed a stretch of weathered gray split rail fence just below a huge and truly magnificent old Hickory tree. The tree’s backlit leaves had all turned to a beautiful canary yellow. Looking at the shaggy barked old tree and glowing yellow foliage, the rail fence and the woods beyond, I knew I was seeing a scene that might have greeted old Abe as a child. I shot about half a roll of Kodachrome 64 of the scene (with a Nikon F4S and a Nikkor 35/f1.4 AIS lens) and the slides were absolutely gorgeous.
In 1811 the Lincoln family moved just a few miles up the road to Knob Creek Farm. The cabin they lived in was torn down around 1870, but an authentic reconstruction was built on the original site in 1931. The families of early Hardin County settlers donated many of the period furnishings in the cabin. The Knob Creek Farm site was recently (2001) purchased by the National Park Service. For more than seventy years private owners maintained the farm as a tourist site. The NPS hasn’t decided how Knob Creek Farm will be incorporated into the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site but it is open daily from April through October. The cabin is temporarily closed. For more information call (270) 358-3137. Lincoln’s family moved to Indiana in 1816. From Hodgencville return to U. S. Hwy 31W South.
Cave City
Arriving in Cave City is like taking a trip back in time because this small town is the international (and possibly galactic) capital of roadside kitsch. If you ever wondered what it was like to travel the two lane highways of America before the interstate system, then Cave City will allow you travel back to a simpler and more colorful era. In the years immediately following World War I, Americans were able to travel widely for the first time in history. The automobile made it possible for almost everyone to play tourist. Small two lane highways (like Route 66 and Route 1) were the only way to travel in the years before super highways. Dixie Hwy (U. S. 31W) was the first paved highway in the Bluegrass State, a route popular with folks from Chicago, Milwaukee, and the upper Midwest as the main road to Florida and the deep-south.
During the 1920’s and 1930’s vacation travel was still a bit uncertain, motels (called travel camps) were few and far between and restaurants were rare outside major cities. Cave City, just about midway between Chicago and Northern Florida, had restaurants, travel camps, and dozens of caves. All this made Cave City an almost perfect place to stop for a day or two and rest. Cave City is the only place in the country where the sort of roadside kitsch made famous along Route 66 during the twenties thirties, forties, and fifties still exists. A visit will long be remembered for the exuberant “Americana” and tacky display of tourist kitsch.
Kentucky’s Cave Wars and the story of Floyd Collins
During the 1920s, the area around Mammoth Cave was one of the most popular travel destinations in the United States. Everything in the area was privately owned and local entrepreneurs developed every interesting cave within fifty miles of Cave City into a tourist attraction. Mammoth Cave remained the destination of choice among visitors. The owners of the property where the historic entrance is located had a monopoly on the areas most popular attraction until 1921 when an oil man named George Morrison dynamited a second entrance into the cave.
The new entrance was more convenient and quickly drew off many tourists. The competition for tourist dollars was so intense that the owners of many of the smaller caves engaged in false advertising, fake road detours, billboards and signs claiming fantastic (and often non-existent) features, and vandalism against competitors. Cave owners bribed restaurant and hotel owners to promote their “hole-in-the-ground” (supposedly the origin of the popular saying) and disparage the caves of their competitors. The occasionally violent competition, vandalism, and a lack of concern for fragile cave ecosystems resulted in serious environmental damage to several caves and the deaths of millions of bats.
Cave explorers crawled, walked, swam, and hiked through every cave they could find; always seeking something new and spectacular that would draw tourists. Cave City’s most famous cave explorer was Floyd Collins. Collins, always an entrepreneur, was the discoverer and promoter of Crystal Caverns. Like every other cave explorer Floyd spent all his spare time searching for the holy-grail of Cave City spelunkers, a new entrance to Mammoth Cave. Collins set off on one of his explorations on January 25, 1925 to check out Sand Cave. While crawling through a very narrow passage, he knocked loose a 27pound chunk of limestone, which pinned his legs. Unable to move forward or turn around in the narrow passageway Collins was trapped more than sixty feet below ground and almost a quarter mile from the nearest exit to the surface.
What happened over the next two weeks was one of the most bizarre tragedies in Kentucky history and the country’s first media circus. Reporters from Louisville’s Courier-Journal newspaper converged on the area and started telephoning an almost continuous stream of news reports. The story quickly spread nationwide and dozens of radio reporters joined the “dog eat dog” competition for information on the attempt to rescue Collins. Radio was just starting to get really popular and the Floyd Collins story was the first time that radio provided immediate national coverage of an unfolding tragedy.
During the early stages of the rescue attempt friends, family, and fellow cave explorers were able to reach Collins with food, water, lanterns, and blankets. More and more people crowded into unstable Sand Cave until a minor cave-in forced all rescuers and reporters to abandon Collins. A second rescue was started from the surface in an attempt to dig a vertical shaft through the sixty feet of rock above Floyd to free him. When rescuers reached Collins on February 16, 1925 he was dead. Billy Wilder’s 1951 drama “The Big Carnival”, starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical reporter out to “scoop” his competition was based on the Floyd Collins story.
You can visit the Floyd Collins Museum in the Wayfarer B&B at 1240 Old Mammoth Cave Road. Floyd’s body was on display for tourists at Crystal Cave for many years (until it was stolen by vandals and dumped in the Green River). The body, minus a leg, was recovered and buried in the cemetery at the old Mammoth Cave Baptist Church (now on NPS property). Local legend has it that on cold foggy nights Floyd is still seen occasionally, ghostly lantern in hand, searching for his missing leg. Floyd Collins death wasn’t in vain because the media circus surrounding the rescue attempt brought the area and its problems to the attention of the Federal Government. The U. S. Congress (in 1926) authorized the purchase of Mammoth Cave and it became a National Park in 1941.
Guntown Mountain
Jesse James was born and raised in Missouri but both his parents were Kentucky natives. Jesse and his older brother Frank spent the Civil War as Confederate guerilla fighters on the Kansas-Missouri border. After the war the James brothers turned to a life of crime, robbing banks all over Missouri. When things got too hot for comfort at home, Jesse often returned to his Kentucky roots as a good place to lay low. The James Gang robbed a bank in Russelville, Kentucky in 1868 and after the hold-up Jesse hid out in the area near Mammoth Cave (and is reputed to have visited the cave as a tourist). One of Cave City’s most popular tourist attractions, Guntown Mountain, bases its existence on this tenuous connection to Jesse James with a fantastic and tacky recreation of the old west in Central Kentucky. The park features rides, a haunted house, a movie set western town with regularly scheduled gunfights, a saloon (with can-can dancers), a musical theatre complete with country music, Smith's Country Store, and Onyx Cave. Guntown Mountain is just off I-65 in Cave City. Kids love the place (270) 773-3530 e-mail:ham@scrtc.com
Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum
The Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum is not really a museum at all; it is a classic roadside zoo. When I was a kid roadside zoos were a popular way to get parents to stop along the highway and spend a few bucks. The Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum is the twenty-first century version of this old roadside attraction. You can see tigers, lions, bears, a snow leopard, deer, sheep, oxen, turtles, lizards, insects, birds, and a huge gift/souvenir shop. KY Hwy 90 in Cave City (270) 773-2255.
Other not to be missed attractions in Cave City are the Hillbilly Hound Fun Park, the Jesse James Riding Stables, Big Mike’s Rock Shop, the Alpine Slide, and the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum.
I’ve saved Cave City’s very best attraction for last. In the early 1930’s a local entrepreneur named Frank Redford came up with a new and novel way to persuade weary travelers to turn off Dixie Highway and stop for the night in cave country. Redford built the first of his Wigwam Villages in nearby Horse Cave in 1935. Redford’s unique travel camps, with fifteen concrete tee-pees arranged in a semi circle around a larger office/restaurant tee-pee, offered tourists the chance to “Sleep in a Tee Pee”. The snow-white tee-pees (with decorative “Indian” design trim in bright red) were an instant hit with travelers and “Wigwam Village #2” opened in Cave City in 1937.
Redford franchised the idea and five more Wigwam villages were built (with two along Route 66 in Arizona and California and the rest in Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana). Today only two of the original seven motels are still in business, the one in Cave City and one on old U. S. 66 in Holbrook, Arizona. The Cave City “Wigwam Village” is open from April to mid-December. The rates are cheap (less than $50 per night) and the tee-pees are still furnished with the original hickory and cane furniture. There are no in-room telephones, but each unit does have a television. The larger office tee-pee has a wonderful collection of American Indian artifacts (all found locally). The restaurant has been closed since the mid-sixties, replaced by a gift shop. If you’ve seen "It Happened One Night" and wanted to try on either the Gable or Colbert role, and make the Walls of Jerrico come tumbling down...then the Wigwam Village may provide the perfect thirties ambience for realizing your fantasy. If you would like to spend a night or two, call (270) 773-3381well in advance, for reservations and information.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave was created by the forces of erosion more than 350 million years ago as the Green River gradually melted away billions of tons of dirt and soft limestone rock to hollow out the magnificent caverns and the hundreds of miles of underground passages that form the longest and most complex cave system on the planet. Eons of erosion have shaped the landscape around Mammoth Cave National Park, as well. The countryside above the cave is covered with a rich flora of Beech, Tulip Poplar, Sugar Maple, White Oak, Black Oak, and Hickory. The local fauna includes White Tail deer, Wild Turkeys, Red-Tail Hawks, bullfrogs, green frogs, red-winged blackbirds, Coyotes, Wood Ducks, Kingfishers, Great Blue Herons, raccoons, several varieties of reptile, more than eighty species of fish, and over fifty different types of fresh water mussel. The Green River is known as one of the most biologically diverse streams in North America and the park ecosystem is home to more than a dozen endangered species.
Mammoth Cave National Park is best visualized by visitors as two distinct but inter-connected worlds. The world of light; the forests, prairies, and hiking trails on the surface, and the world of darkness; with caverns, passageways,and mineral formations below the ground. Water is the substance that ties these two worlds together, each dependent on the other for survival. Not to be missed above ground are the Sloan's Crossing Pond Nature Trail, Cedar Sink, the Turnhole Bend Nature Trail, and the Joppa Ridge Motor Nature Trail. Must see below ground attractions include Frozen Niagara, Rainbow Dome, a boat-ride on the Echo River, the historic tour, and (not for the faint of heart) the lantern tour.
Creatures Unique to Mammoth Cave
Rare and unusual animals, such as blind cave fish and colorless spiders demonstrate evolution and adaptation to the absolute darkness. Many unique species living in the Mammoth Cave area now threatened by development and industrial/agricultural pollutants that are entering the cave system through the waters of the Green River.
Ancient Residents of the Cave
For thousands of years before Columbus and his tiny party landed on the North American continent bands of Native American hunter-gatherers used the caves in West Central Kentucky for shelter and as a source of raw materials. More than 12,000 years ago, when huge sheets of glacial ice covered the country north of Kentucky, Paleo-Indians (also known as big game hunters) roamed through cave country. Very little is known about these ancient Americans. They were expert stone workers who made some of the most beautiful and functional projectile points ever found. They hunted mega-fauna, the gigantic long horn bison, giant ground sloths, and mastodons. They used short throwing spears and worked in teams to kill the huge ice age mammals that populated North America. These ancient Indians were highly nomadic and followed the herds almost like packs of wolves. As the ice receded slowly northward, the mega-fauna died off, hunted to extinction by the skilled spearmen.
Gradually the wanderers became more sedentary, growing crops, learning to make pottery, and exploiting the products of each season. The wandering spearmen eventually became the Shawnee and Cherokee and related tribes that were living in the area when the first European settlers arrived at the end of the eighteenth century. For thousands of years before the first European “long hunters” wandered into the Bluegrass, bands of Shawnee and Cherokee Indians mined Mammoth Cave for flint for arrowheads, hunted buffalo and deer, fished the rich waters of central Kentucky for mussels, and gathered berries and roots. Once European settlers reached the Kentucky frontier and built settlements like Harrodsburg, Boonesborough, and Louisville the Native Americans and their hunter-gatherer lifestyle were doomed. By the turn of the nineteenth century there were very few Native Americans remaining in Kentucky.
A Brief History of Mammoth Cave
Nobody knows the name of the first European to see Mammoth Cave, but legend has it that he was a long hunter who chased a wounded bear into the historic entrance just after the Revolutionary War. Mammoth Cave became very important to the new nation when the War of 1812 broke out. The British Navy blockaded the U. S. coastline making it impossible to import gunpowder. Without gunpowder the United States couldn't fight the British. The dirt that covered the floor of Mammoth Cave contained saltpetre and saltpetre could be refined into Potassium Nitrate, a major component (along with sulphure and charcoal) of gunpowder. Thousands of pounds of saltpetre were mined from the cave during the War of 1812. Kentucky gunpowder and a couple dozen expert Kentucky marksmen helped Andrew Jackson and less than two thousand rag tag citizen soldiers defeat 12,000 of Britain’s most experienced troops at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
After the War of 1812 Mammoth Cave became one of the two most popular and important tourist attractions in the United States, the other was Niagara Falls. Travel in early nineteenth century Kentucky was an arduous task. Roads (where there were roads) were primitive well-worn dirt tracks that turned to mud when it rained. Tourism was the province of the wealthy during most of the nineteenth century, and hundreds of wealthy travelers ventured to cave country to see Mammoth Cave.
During the early 1840’s the cave was used to house tuberculosis patients. A prominent Louisville physician developed the hypothesis that the cave climate would help “consumptives” regain their health. The experiment was a horrible failure because the damp cold climate of the cave actually made tuberculosis symptoms worse. After the Mammoth Cave experiment “consumptives” were sent to the dry hot Arizona and New Mexico desert to regain their health.
After the Civil War, cave country once again focused on tourism. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad ran between Louisville and Park City (then called Glasgow Junction) every day. Tourists checked into Bell's Tavern, dropped off their luggage, and boarded a stagecoach for the nine-mile trip to the cave. In 1880 one of those stagecoaches was held up by a group of armed men who demanded that the passengers “fork over” their money and valuables. A local magistrate was forced to give up a considerable sum in cash and his treasured gold watch. When the stage returned to Bell’s Tavern everyone laughed at the magistrate’s tale of losing his gold watch and cash to Jesse James. When Jesse was shot in the back and killed by his cousin Robert Howard (for the reward) in 1882, the magistrate’s gold watch was found on his body.
After World War I tourism in West Central Kentucky grew by leaps and bounds. The automobile made it possible to easily visit out of the way locations and Dixie Highway brought thousands of motorists through cave country each year. By the early 1920’s Mammoth Cave was the most popular tourist attraction in the United States, pumping millions of dollars into the local economy every year. Mammoth Cave became a National Park in 1941.
Personal Stories about Mammoth Cave
My first visit to Mammoth Cave was in 1958, when I was eleven years old. My Uncle Morgan was killed in an accident and my father decided to take my three younger sisters and me to the funeral. He worked as a welder and was on a job in Michigan when he got the bad news. He wasn’t able to leave until Friday afternoon (after he finished work for the week) so he drove straight through from Michigan and picked us up in North Central Indiana. My Mother packed our stuff and had us ready to go when he rolled in a couple of hours after midnight on Saturday morning. My Dad drove straight through to Eastern Kentucky while the four of us slept. We arrived just in time to get some breakfast and change clothes before the funeral.
After the funeral we piled back into my Dad’s 1953 Ford Custom and hit the road again, headed home because my Dad had to be back at work in Michigan on Monday morning. About the time we got to Bowling Green Kentucky, my Dad was in a pretty bad way. He had been up for over 36 hours straight (most of that time spent driving) and he was afraid that he would fall asleep and have an accident. Just north of Bowling Green he saw the signs for Mammoth Cave and turned off.
We arrived at the park just minutes after the last scheduled tour for the day had begun. My Dad explained to the ranger (he and my Dad were both former Marines) that he really needed to get a couple of hours sleep to avoid having an accident. The ranger agreed to take the four of us kids on a personal tour of the cave. My first visit to Mammoth Cave was a four kid tour with our own personal ranger. He took us all over the cave and showed us tons of really nifty stuff. After we finished with our tour he bought all four of us a coke and managed to kill another half an hour. By the time we got back to the car my dad had managed to grab about two and a half hours of shut-eye. He shook hands with the ranger and thanked him, our new friend smiled, said “semper fi” and waved goodbye. For the next couple of years my ambition in life was to be a USNPS ranger.
When we took my two nephews Nick (age 7) and Donovan (age five) who were spending part of the summer with us to see Mammoth Cave we had another genuinely unique experience. It was a terribly hot day and the cool interior of the cave (always 55 degrees) felt absolutely wonderful. We chose to take the Frozen Niagara tour and started off with our group down the long metal stairway into the bowels of the cavern. About half way down Nick noticed a small red button mounted on the limestone wall of the cave. Nick had been traveling with my wife and I since he was a toddler and had seen many attractions that had “interactive exhibits” where you pushed a button and a voice over recording explained what you were seeing. Thinking that the red button was for some sort of interactive display or recording, Nick pushed the button, plunging the stairway into complete darkness.
You have no concept of how dark it can really get until someone turns off the lights a quarter mile underground. A couple of people screamed and everyone was starting to panic when the ranger said in a loud firm voice “Please remain exactly where you are” and in a couple of minutes we found ourselves back in the light (and the center of attention) of a large and thoroughly shaken group of tourists. The ranger was really cool, he patted Nick on the head and told everyone” it happens all the time”.
I can’t guarantee that your experiences at Mammoth Cave will be as memorable as mine, but I can promise that you’ll come away awed by the power of mother nature and the beauty of West Central Kentucky.
Mammoth Cave National Park
For more information: http://www.nps.gov/maca/ or http://www.nps.gov/maca/home.htm From Mammoth Cave you can continue on to Bowling Green (and Nashville) or return to Louisville. In Bowling Green, be sure to see
The National Corvette Museum
After World War II America embarked on an automotive love affair that gave birth to hot rods, drag racing, street rods, muscle cars, and the first mainstream American Sports Car. In 1953 General Motors unveiled a new concept car named for a small fast British Royal Navy combat ship. The new Corvette (available only in white) would debut just a few months later as the first mass production fiberglass bodied car in American history.
The first Corvette didn’t do too well with buyers, the body was pretty snazzy looking, but everything else was boring. The new two-seater looked really good (as long as you didn’t mind white) but it didn’t handle like a sports car and the frumpy “blue flame six” engine was a joke when compared with European sports cars.
By 1955 Chevrolet had finally gotten it right (with the help of some competition from Ford’s gorgeous little Thunderbird) and dropped a hot V-8 into the Corvette (along with much improved handling) The rest is history. Since the early 1980’s Corvettes have been made at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. Right beside the assembly plant is a museum dedicated to the Corvette.
The National Corvette Museum has more than fifty Corvettes including the original 1953 model, the classic 1963 split window Sting Ray, the ultimate muscle car, the 1965 427 Sting Ray, and dozens more. There are historical displays, dioramas, concept cars, and a huge gift shop that sells; you guessed it, Corvette stuff. Interstate 65 (South) exit 28 or phone (270) 781-7973 or 1-800-53-VETTE.
2002-2003 is the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the Corvette and the museum is sponsoring a yearlong celebration that started Memorial Day with the Corvette Pace Car leading the pack into the Indy 500. Many other events are planned, call for more information and dates.
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