We made our way across the rolling hills of West Virginia into the green pastures of Kentucky.

We started exploring Mammoth Cave at the visitors center to determine which cave tour would work best for us. As the longest cave system in the world, there was so much to choose from!

They weren’t running the shorter tour from the Natural Entrance, so we opt’ed for the Frozen Niagara tour which enters through a man-made entrance that was created by an old tour operator before the park was created. I would love to come back and do the Historic Tour, or one of the Lantern tours once the kids are a bit older – both are longer & the lanterns have age limits. They use orange tinted lights so they don’t promote any unnatural plant or fungal growth.

Our new friends who were camped next to us and are also a full-time traveling family. After the tour, we finished up our books over lunch & got our badges.

The next day, we decided to explore the surface of the park the best way – by horseback! The Double J stables had a great setup & super nice crew.

Jsky even made a another new friend at our next campground.