Experience wilderness unfiltered amid miles of breathtaking hiking and backpacking trails in Illinois’ Garden of the Gods or go underground, then enjoy the view at an international dark sky park at ...

National parks. It seems post-COVID, we can't get enough of the outdoors and the natural beauty of America. Kentucky boasts one national park (Mammoth Cave) and two national historical parks (Abraham ...

In our Uniquely Kentucky stories, Herald-Leader journalists bring you the quirky and cool, historic and infamous, beloved and unforgettable, and everything-in-between stories of what makes our ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is Kentucky's lone national park. However, it isn't the only cave in Kentucky, or even the area. There are even more caves near the park and around the state than the caves ...

The entrance to the cave looks sterilized — a stainless steel door that wouldn’t seem out of place in a hospital looks wholly foreign out here in Mammoth Cave National Park. Yet our cave guide that ...

A brand-new holiday attraction is lighting up the edge of Mammoth Cave National Park with Christmas at the Cave.

Two Kentucky lawmakers are pushing to expand Mammoth Cave National Park through federal legislation that would extend its boundary by nearly 1,000 acres, add new cave passages and help the park ...

Mammoth Cave National Park plans to start improvements this fall on an underground trail with funding from the Great American Outdoors Act. The park said in a statement that it will receive about $6.5 ...

CAVE CITY, Ky. (WDKY) — Researchers discovered a new shark species in a layer of rock at Mammoth Cave National Park. On Wednesday, the park announced the petal-toothed shark was found inside the Ste.

Two new species of shark have been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.The new species, Troglocladodus trimblei and Glikmanius careforum, were discovered through the ongoing ...