We spent several extra days in Indiana while doing some renovations on our new RV. The day before leaving Indiana, we drove about 40 minutes to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. Like the Ark, kids ages 10 and under get in free for all of 2020. The Creation Museum is really neat, and we all enjoyed walking through it.
The next day, we left Florence, Indiana and headed to Park City, Kentucky. We stayed just two nights at our first Thousand Trails RV park. We bought a Thousand Trails pass a few months ago. We’ve heard all things good and bad. Our first experience was a plus – nice spot at an overall nice park. There was nothing fancy, but it met all that we wanted and needed.
It was just a 10-minute drive from our RV park to the Mammoth Cave National Park visitor’s center. In advance, we booked the self-guided extended historic tour. I noticed that there are many, many tours, but that there are very few open because of Covid. We were happy just to get to go!
Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest known cave system. We explored just a small fraction of it.
This is the first cave we’ve walked through that we saw no stalagmites or stalactites. A ranger told us that the part of the cave we were in basically had a really good roof with no leaks. No dripping water means those don’t form.
We spent a little over an hour exploring all that we could, and we even saw a sleeping bat at the end!
We finished our cave tour earlier than expected, so we decided to drive over to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.
We all enjoyed it a lot more than I thought we would. Seeing the different cars was neat, but we were all most fascinated by the sinkhole that happened at the museum in 2014. Eight cars fell into the 40-foot wide and 30-foot deep sinkhole. Those cars were retrieved and are displayed broken and dirty in the museum today.
Having such a short stay in Kentucky, we were happy with how we used our time. I recommend visiting both Mammoth Cave and the National Corvette Museum!
I’m so excited you were in my hometown of Bowling Green! I am disappointed that you didn’t get to go on a real cave tour of Mammoth Cave. There are a lot of really cool things to see. The best tour is the guided Historic Tour. It is about 2 hours long and there is a super skinny section called fat mans misery. Really the best season to be in Kentucky is Midway through fall. The weather is perfect and the leaves all over the state are gorgeous.