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MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK TOURS
In FY25, this reservation product recorded 176,928 orders.
FY25 orders
176,928
Recorded Recreation.gov orders
Historical demand
Very High
Based on FY25 order volume
Median observed lead
2 days
FY25 reservations with valid lead data
Peak month
July
Month with the most FY25 start dates
Historical demand does not measure reservation difficulty.
Observed booking lead
Mutually exclusive FY25 buckets from order date versus start date. Same calendar day means both fell on the same date.
- Same calendar day35.5% · 62,728
- 1–7 days29.8% · 52,646
- 8–14 days10.1% · 17,880
- 15–30 days13.3% · 23,444
- 31–60 days10.6% · 18,747
- 61+ days0.8% · 1,480
Historical seasonality
Share of FY25 orders by reservation start month.
Jan
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Dec
Tours
- Broadway Tour · Cave Tour · 120
- Cleaveland Avenue · Cave Tour · 150
- Discovery Tour · Cave Tour · 20
- Domes and Dripstones · Cave Tour · 120
- Extended Historic Tour · Cave Tour · 135
- Focus on Frozen Niagara Tour · Cave Tour · 105
- Frozen Niagara · Cave Tour · 75
- Gothic Avenue Tour · Cave Tour · 120
- Grand Avenue · Cave Tour · 240
- Great Onyx Tour · Cave Tour · 135
- Historic · Cave Tour · 120
- Introduction to Caving · Cave Tour · 210
- Mammoth Cave Accessible Tour · Cave Tour · 120
- Passage Tour · Cave Tour · 75
- River Styx · Cave Tour · 150
- Snowball Tour · Cave Tour · 180
- Star Chamber · Cave Tour · 150
- Trog · Cave Tour · 165
- Violet City Lantern · Cave Tour · 180
- Wild Cave · Cave Tour · 360
Data limitations
- FY25 Recreation.gov orders only (1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025).
- Does not report current availability, current booking windows, current prices, or quotas.
- Historical demand does not measure availability or difficulty.
- Median observed booking lead is not a “book X days ahead” instruction.