Cave Between the Caves

This small cave is quite nice. It is located on posted private property. Please do not visit this cave unless you have permission from the owner. Sandstone Cave opens from a contact in a bluff into a small room that features two prominant white flowstones. One has small gour pools on the side of it (see photos below). This room leads to a steep flowstone climbdown into the second chamber which is a large gallery with an impressing flowstone wall perhaps 25 feet tall and 20 feet wide.

This gallery has a small pit in the rear that requires a climbdown of about 8 feet (see photos). At the bottom of the climbdown you can go two directions. One leads to a medium sized room that has nice flowstone on one wall and the other direction leads to the most impressive formation area in the cave. This room has a very muddy floor, flowstone on all walls, copapods in the mud pools, and a flowstone lead that goes into a very muddy room at the rear of the cave.

Many cave crickets inhabit this cave and it does not smell fresh in the very bottom. This may be due to the effect of anaerobic bacteria doing their thing in the mud down there. I have visited this cave two times. All photos on this page were taken with a Kodak DC215 digital camera. All photos copyrighted by Jay Greene, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

Nora Dickins of the Upper Cumberland Grotto poses next to a white flowstone with small gour pools behind it.

Jay, your web author, standing in front of the rather impressive flowstone fall in the first gallery of Sandstone Cave.

Nora and Andrew Dickins sharing a handline as they climb down the small shaft that leads to the lower portion of the cave.

One direction from the bottom of the climb down leads to a room that features this formation.

This area is in the very bottom and rear of the cave and has copapods in the mud puddles.

This interesting cave popcorn/coral is located on the wall in the very rear of the cave. It is very wet in this room and very active.

That's me emerging from the little room at the bottom rear of the cave. It is a muddy mess in there.

Greg and Jackie King of the Upper Cumberland Grotto observe the flowstone coated wall in the lower gallery of this cave.

Another view of the large flowstone in the first main gallery of the cave. This view is taken from below as you re-enter the gallery from the lower section of the cave.