This is a short series of posts about things discovered along the way.
I came to central Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park, and spent a week in the area North of the park but only a day in the cave. This is the part of traveling America I like best – the unplanned adventures and unexpected discoveries that come when you have more than enough time in your schedule for such things to occur organically.
What follows are a series of short passages from this time in the Kentucky hill country:
A Sailor Home from the Sea
The Park Service scatters a load of crusher run gravel occasionally on an old road that skirts the North side of the Mammoth Cave property. I suspect the motivation is mostly to allow fire crews to protect the area, but the road also provides access to a few backcountry trailheads and remote cemeteries from before the government acquired the Park.
