Camp's Gulf Cave

Note: If you got here via Todd Raterman's Outdoors-411 site, then I welcome you to this website. Please click on the tiny link below to get full frames and indexes. Mr. Raterman has a profound and unbased dislike for me and my grotto, The Upper Cumberland Grotto and as such he combed through this rather large site looking for something "bad" he could use as an example of how horrible we are. Petty behavior from an obviously petty person. For the record--the formations being touched on this page are dry, heavily stained and polished, and in many cases obviously broken from hundreds of years of human touching and vandalism, including from native Americans. There are also trails through the formation areas pictured. This cave has been well known for a very long time and like all well known caves it suffers from heavy vandalism near the entrance. All of the formations in question are very near the entrance to the cave and have suffered from many years of abuse. I am sorry to ruin Mr. Raterman's hateful accusations of me and my caving associates, but it seems that his accusations are without basis. We did nothing wrong in this cave and this website features much useful information regarding cave conservation, cave flora and fauna, cave gating, and general cave ecology. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please click the tiny link below to get full frames and indexes.

Noble Stern in some interesting borehole passage in Camp's Gulf Cave. The stream carved a narrow channel in the bottom of the passage and then the water left. Popcorn lines the walls.

Scott Bonnell and Billy Holland in the bat room in Camp's Gulf Cave.

Noble posing near a large column.

This is the passage through the seldom used second entrance to the cave. I wonder why people why don't use it more?

My friend Big John from Cullman, Alabama. He is sitting in a seldom visited part of the cave. This drapery is not hard to get to but not many people have found it. Hence it's good condition.

The same bacon strip.drapery show above.

My sister Linda in the pond room near the entrance. I like the ripple reflections on the wall.

Some formations in the cave. These are in a side passage.

More ceiling shots, including some stalactites.

A nice flowstone in the pond room of Camp's Gulf.

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