HOVEY’S HAND-BOOK
OF
The Mammoth Cave
OF KENTUCKY

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE
REGULATION ROUTES
With Maps and Illustrations

BY
HORACE CARTER HOVEY, D.D.
F. G. S. A.

Copyright, 1909, by John P. Morton & Company, Incorporated

Louisville, Kentucky
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
Incorporated
1909

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
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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

Fairy Grotto