This free Kentucky park is actually a mammoth graveyard from the Ice Age

Wikimedia Commons/JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD

Kentucky’s best-kept prehistoric secret

You wouldn’t know it from the parking lot. There’s a small visitor center, a few picnic tables, a trail map posted near the entrance.

But the ground beneath Big Bone Lick State Historic Site in Union, Kentucky, holds the bones of mammoths, mastodons, and giant ground sloths that died here thousands of years ago. They came for the salt.

They never left…

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