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In late October 2020, a friend and I drove from Miami to spend a couple of days photographing in Mammoth Cave National Park. Trees had already begun to shed their leaves and a cold front was slowly making its way through the area. We enjoyed soft light, foggy mornings, and an extensive trail system through a variety of plant communities.

The sinkholes of Cedar Sink and Turnhole Bend were particularly impressive with their collections of wildflowers and ferns growing in the cracks and crevices of the rock walls. We spent over three hours on the Historic Cave Tour - a self-guided two mile walk inside the largest chamber of the world's longest cave system (over 400 miles of surveyed passages to date).

Photographs in this Gallery were made around the cabins; on Cedar Sink, Dixon Cave, Green River Bluff, Heritage, River Styx Spring, Sunset Point, and Turnhole Bend Nature Trails; at the Doyel Valley Overlook; at Sloan's Crossing Pond; and inside Mammoth Cave.