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Perhaps you’ve bundled up for the Cave Sing during the holidays or canoed the languid Green River in summertime.   Do you remember the ranger guiding the tour, or explaining the latest scientific discovery, or telling the story of doomed Floyd Collins by the campfire circle?

The park still strives to do these things – the same personal experience, plus new science, new programs, new experiences, new trails – and more.  But it isn’t easy, and the park could use some friends … friends like you.   

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Having completed our organizational framework, we are now eager to start our Membership Drive.  We need people like you to become a member of our organization and help us to get things moving.  As a member of the Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park, you will be in a unique position to make a lasting change for Mammoth Cave.  Become a Member today!

Your membership fees will help:

• Enhance visitor activities at the park by funding additional rangers and park publications.
   

• Fund capital construction projects like the new museum at the Visitor Center, Learning Center facilities, and trails.Build an Endowment for the Mammoth Cave International Center for Science & Learning.
   

• Fund park Environmental Education programs to reach every school-aged child in Kentucky.
   

• Support scientific research and conservation projects.
   

• Volunteer your time at the park to achieve outstanding projects.

If not You, who? 

The Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park, Inc. has a mission to: support memorable multi-cultural, multi-generational visitor experiences to Mammoth Cave National Park in partnership with surrounding communities; to serve as an ambassador to both Mammoth Cave National Park and the caveland region, promoting and enhancing understanding and appreciation of all facets of Mammoth Cave National Park and the surrounding International Biosphere Reserve; to support and foster educational programs and research projects, including those that will improve students’ competence in science and technology or encourage international cooperation; and to support, create, and encourage healthy lifestyles through the fitness opportunities and recreational choices available at Mammoth Cave National Park and the surrounding area.