Hovey's Handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky / A Practical Guide to the Regulation Routes |
GUIDE MAP OF THE MAMMOTH CAVE KENTUCKY Drawn by Horace C. Hovey
1909 (From former surveys, with recent additions)
Copyright 1907 & 1909 by Horace C. Hovey [ High-Resolution Image] | TABLE OF APPROXIMATE DISTANCES | | To the | Kentucky Cliffs | about | 380 | yds. | | ″ | Standing Rocks | ″ | 647 | ″ | | ″ | Giant’s Coffin | ″ | 875 | ″ | | ″ | Star Chamber | ″ | 1500 | ″ | | ″ | Ultima Thule | ″ | 4200 | ″ | | ″ | Limitation Hill | ″ | 1840 | ″ | | ″ | Angelica’s Grotto | ″ | 1957 | ″ | | ″ | Mammoth Dome | ″ | 1870 | ″ | | ″ | Echo River (A) | ″ | 2320 | ″ | | ″ | End of Echo River (est.) | ″ | 3000 | ″ | | ″ | Jessup Domes | ″ | 4200 | ″ | | ″ | Mary’s Vineyard | ″ | 6000 | ″ | | ″ | Hovey’s Cathedral (est.) | ″ | 9200 | ″ | | ″ | Maelstrom | ″ | 9600 | ″ | NOTE:—No instrumental survey of the whole cave has ever been made, and no exact scale can be given. The above are some of the distances as paced along the avenues. Domes, halls and pits are relatively enlarged; and rivers and pools are blackened. The data for this new Guide map is from the earlier maps of Bogert (1814), Ward (1816), Lee (1835), Bishop (1845), Blackall (1817-pub. 1899), Forwood (1875), Hovey (1887) and Call (1897), and from written and oral information by managers and guides, modified and greatly added to by the author’s own observations during the past twenty-seven years. NOTE No. 2:—In the year 1905 Max Kaemper, a German Engineer, was employed to make a complete survey exclusively for the use of the owners. Some of his suggestions are embodied in this map of 1909, and others in the separate charts for the several routes.
- KEY TO THE MAP
- 1. The Iron Gate
- 2. Hutchins’ Narrows
- 3. Kentucky Cliffs and the Corkscrew
- 4. The Church
- 5. Booth’s Amphitheatre
- 6. Standing Rocks
- 7. Grand Arch
- 8. Giant’s Coffin and Dante’s Gateway
- 9. Acute Angle and Cottages
- 10. Proctor’s Arcade
- 11. Wright’s Rotunda
- 12. The Cataracts
- 13. Fairy Grotto
- 14. St. Catherine City
- 15. Symmes’ Pit
- 16. Mummy’s Niche
- 17. Register Hall
- 18. The Bridal Altar
- 19. The Arm Chair
- 20. Lover’s Leap
- 21. Elbow Crevice
- 22. Napoleon’s Dome
- 23. Wilson’s Way
- 24. Lake Purity
- 25. Annette Dome
- 26. Lee’s Cisterns
- 27. Wooden Bowl Room
- 28. The Lost Way Found
- 29. Way to Pits and Domes
- 30. Side-Saddle Pit
- 31. Bottomless Pit
- 32. Covered Pit
- 33. Scylla
- 34. Charybdis
- 35. Putnam’s Cabinet
- 36. Darnall’s Way
- 37. Ariadne’s Grotto
- 38. Short Cut from Bottomless Pit to Gorin’s Dome
- 39. Reveller’s Hall
- 40. Grand Crossing
- 41. Pineapple Bush
- 42. Angelica’s Grotto
- 43. Scotchman’s Trap
- 44. Fat Man’s Misery
- 45. Bandit Hall
- 46. Brigg’s Avenue
- 47. Charlet’s Dome
- 48. Wyatt’s Domes
- 49. Balanced Rock
- 50. The Dead Sea
- 51. Charon’s Cascade
- D. Janin’s Landing
- 52. Cascade Hall
- 53. Serpent Hall
- 54. Valley-Way Side-Cut
- 55. The Great Western
- 56. Vale of Flowers
- 57. The Jessup Domes
- 58. Ole Bull’s Concert Hall
- 59. Fly Chamber
- 60. Sheep Shelter
- 61. Corinne’s Dome
- 62. Black Hole of Calcutta
- 63. Parrish’s Path
- 64. Crypt of Jewels
- 65. Washington Hall
- 66. Snow Ball Room
- 67. Floral Cross
- 68. Orpha’s Garden
- 69. Wisdom’s Path
- 70. Paradise
- 71. Zoe’s Grotto
- 72. Flora’s Garden
- 73. Vale of Diamonds
- 74. Helen’s Hall
- 75. Charlotte’s Grotto
- 76. Serena’s Arbor
- 77. Dismal Hollow
- 78. Clark’s Avenue
- 79. Harlan’s Avenue
- 80. Nicholson’s Avenue
- 81. Boone Avenue
- 82. Pinson’s Pass
- 83. Hawkins’ Way
- 84. Violet City
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