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Request a Free
Student
Group Tour Guide
Kentucky’s Cave Area is brimming with exciting
educational opportunities offering professionally
coordinated programs geared to students from
kindergarten through college.
Four
of our area’s major attractions offer educational
programs with teachers’ guides. Many more offer related
experiences. You can spend a day, but your students will
have so much fun you’ll want to stay longer!
A
fantastic experience is just around the corner.
Kentucky’s Cave area is within a 300-mile radius of 70
million people.
Contact us at (800) 762-2869 to plan your trip.
We’re here to help make your trip enjoyable, so let us
help plan your visit. We can create a custom adventure
for you and your students.
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Being a cave biologist
at Hidden River Cave is a Dirty Job!
Hidden
River Cave, recently featured on the Discovery Channel’s
“Dirty Jobs” series offers staff-facilitated, hands-on
activities that focus on geology, cave animals,
conservation, decision-making and team building.
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HRC Students at entrance |
Elementary programs include a 1-hour cave tour, an
American Cave Museum scavenger hunt and 2 group
activities for $8 per student, $10 per parent, teachers
free. Ranging from “Batty About Bats”, fossil making,
“Digging It” (a simulated archaeological site), karst
geology and water quality lessons, the classes are full
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Middle
school, high school, scouts, youth groups and families
can travel off-stream in search of elusive cave animals,
delicate cave formations and underground streams on the
Wild Caving Adventure Tour. The trip is strenuous and
requires appropriate clothing, boots and gloves. Helmets
and lights are provided. The fee is $25 for a 2-hour
tour and $35 for a 3-hour tour. Both include museum
admission.
American Cave Museum/Hidden River Cave, (270) 786-1466,
www.cavern.org
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Discover prehistoric
herbivores and carnivores at Dinosaur World!
Budding paleontologists will love the educational
programs at Dinosaur World that focus on physical
science, biological sciences, energy transformations and
interdependence.
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In
addition to exhibits, Dinosaur World has a
dinosaur-themed playground, a covered picnic area and a
large gift shop with dinosaur eggs, books, educational
materials, artifacts and toys. |
Fossil Dig
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Activities include the Dinosaur Walk, Boneyard, Fossil
Dig, Mammoth Herd, Movie Cave and Indoor Museum.
Educational group rates: $5 per person, minimum of 12
for a group, free adult for every 10 students, group
reservations required.
Dinosaur World, (270)
773-4345,
www.dinoworld.net
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Have an authentic
Australian adventure at Kentucky Down Under!
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Making New
Friends in the Outback Walkabout at KDU |
Bring
your students on a unique journey through the wonders of
Australia and experience unforgettable encounters with
the continent’s unusual creatures as they learn about
the culture and wildlife of the “Land Down Under”! |
Students can participate in hands-on, staff-facilitated
programs that will introduce them to kangaroos,
wallabies, emus, lorikeets, reptiles, Aboriginal
culture, shepherding, and more. Programs include: Tour
of Kentucky Caverns, Woolshed Program, Outback
Walkabout, Land of Lories, Scales & Tails, Camp
Corroboree, Taraba Station, Nature Trail, and Gem Mining
(additional cost).
Catered sack lunches are available by prior arrangement.
Group
rates (15 or more): preschool to 8th grade
$7; high school $8; Adults $12.50; 1 adult per 10
children admitted freed. Tour guides and motor coach
drivers free.
Kentucky Down Under, (800)
762-2869,
www.kdu.com
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Experience the stage
with the professionals at
Kentucky Repertory Theatre!
Honored by USAToday as “One of the 10 best places to see
the lights way off Broadway”, Kentucky Repertory
Theatre, a professional equity theatre, reaches 15,000
students each year through its Educational Outreach
program.
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Students can enjoy matinee professional
productions, Young Performers Productions
staged by Kentucky students, tour the
theatre and participate in theatre
workshops. The 1-hour workshops are limited
to 25 students, cost $50 for the group and
include: CATS Preparation, Introduction to
Acting, Improvisation, Stage combat,
Shakespeare, Behind the Scenes, and Career
Opportunities. |
KRT Students |
Don’t
forget to make time to add an evening or weekend
production at KRT to your schedule!
Kentucky Repertory Theatre,
(800) 342-2177,
www.kentuckyrep.org
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More education-related
cave area activities:
Caves: Crystal Onyx Cave, Cub Run Cave, Outlaw Cave,
Onyx Cave
Canoeing: Big Buffalo Crossing canoe & Kayak, Green
River Canoe Outfitters, Mammoth Cave Canoe and Kayak.
Art/History: Avalon Stained Glass School, Battle for
the bridge Historic Preserve, Hart County Historical
Museum, Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Mammoth Cave Wildlife
Museum.
Check
out these websites for more info on these activities:
www.kygetaway.com,
www.cavecity.com,
www.mammothcave.com,
www.visitmunfordville.com
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Perform with us!
Looking for a place for your group to perform? Check
with us about the availability of several Cave Area
venues including” the Hidden River Cave outdoor stage,
Kentucky Repertory Theatre stage, Dinosaur World,
Kentucky Down Under, Kentucky Action Park Amphitheater,
Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp Resorts and more.
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Nearby day trips
Plan
to add a day to your visit and enjoy one of several day
trip venues that are all within a 45-minute drive:
Mammoth Cave National Park, Diamond Caverns, South
Central Kentucky Cultural Center, Lost River Cave and
Valley, National Corvette Museum, Historic Railpark
Train Museum L&N Depot, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace,
Lincoln Museum.
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Add some more fun to
your adventure!
We
have loads of fun activities, so plan to stay a while
and have a ball at: Big Mike’s Mystery House, Cave
Country Go Carts, Dennison’s Roadside Market, Guntown
Mountain, Highland Cinemas, Historic Downtown Horse Cave
Shopping District, Kentucky Action Park, Jesse James
Riding Stables, mammoth Cave Mountain Bikes, Ridgetop
Lake, Scrap Happy, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp
Resorts.
Check
out these websites for more info on attractions:
www.kygetaway.com,
www.cavecity.com,
www.mammothcave.com,
www.visitmunfordville.com
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Stay and dine with us!
We’re
right in the middle of it all, so make us your home
base. In the Cave Area we have: Hampton Inn, Country
Hearth Inn & Suites, Comfort Inn & Suites, Comfort Inn,
Best Western, Budget Inn, Days Inn, Knights Inn, Quality
Inn, Super 8 (Cave City and Munfordville).
Camping/cabins: Horse Cave KOA Campground, Yogi Bear’s
Jellystone Camp Resorts, Kentucky Action Park Cabins,
and Thelma Stovall Park (primitive campsites).
We
have loads of restaurants, as well: Aunt Bee’s Family
Restaurant, Bel Air, CK’s Homestyle Restaurant, Cave
City Convention Center and Hickory Villa can accommodate
large groups with reservations. We also have loads of
family favorites and franchise restaurants.
Check
out these websites for more info about lodging and
restaurants:
www.kygetaway.com,
www.cavecity.com,
www.mammothcave.com,
www.visitmunfordville.com
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Sample Itineraries
Contact us and we
will help you create a fantastic itinerary so that you
can include the right experiences for your students.
Here are some samples:
Have a Ball! Do It All!
Day 1
Day 2
- Discover life
underground at Hidden River Cave and the American
Cave Museum.
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Take a class from a
professional actor or technician at Kentucky
Repertory Theatre.
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Stage you own
performance at one of our venues.
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Enjoy a
professional performance at Kentucky Repertory
Theatre.
Day 3
Awesome Animals
Day 1
Day 2
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Explore the
underground life at Hidden River Cave and the
American Cave Museum.
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Have a real
Kentucky experience with horseback riding at Jesse
James Stables. While you’re there, check out the
rock-climbing wall, go karts, mini-golf and more.
Get down and dirty!
Day 1
Day 2
Experience adventure,
just a little tamer!
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Get up close and
personal with the animals at Kentucky Down Under.
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Learn about the
underground world at Hidden River Cave.
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Walk with the
dinosaurs at Dinosaur World.
Make learning a pARTy!
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Tour backstage at Kentucky Repertory Theatre and see
the Thomas Opera House, a real Vaudeville stage.
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Search for a collector’s edition or a book by your
favorite author at The Bookstore.
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Stage your own performance at one of our venues.
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Plunge hands-on into a class with an artist at
Avalon Stained Glass School.
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Enjoy a production at Kentucky Repertory Theatre.
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