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Grotto/Organization/Group |
State |
Active |
Region/Notes |
| Golden Pond Grotto | KY | Yes | Western KY
This may be a reincarnation of the one above, or they may be separate |
| Hart of Kentucky | ? | Mammoth Cave area | |
| Green River Grotto | KY | ? | Chris Groves, et. al. Mostly Western Ky and Mammoth Cave area. |
| Nashville Grotto | TN | ? | Wayne County and southern Todd, Christian and Logan Counties |
| Upper Cumberland Grotto | TN | ? | Wayne County and southern Todd, Christian and Logan Counties
From Lou Simpson: I am aware of some exploration and mapping in KY being done by theCumberland Grotto, located in Pickett and Fentress Counties, TN. Point of contact is Shawn Roark, caver47128@netscape.net. |
| Miami Valley Grotto | ? | ||
| Black Hole Grotto | KY | ? | Are they still around? Russell Kyler used to be one of the people involved there. They do far western Ky and probably overlap some with WKSS. |
| Evansville Met Grotto | IN | ? | Western Ky area, they used to be doing a lot of work with Glover's Cave and others in that area (Scottsville?) They've also helped with gating some caves in north central and central Ky. |
| Louisville Grotto | KY | Yes | Meade, Hardin, Breckinridge is their primary area, although they have ventured elsewhere due to Speleofest wanderings. Next area outside of that would be central Ky Karst. |
| Bluegrass Grotto | KY | Yes | Bluegrass area (Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Jessamine, Madison, Garrard, Boyd, etc.) and also Rockcastle/Pulaski area. |
| Detroit Urban Grotto | MI | Yes | Central Ky area, mainly Fisher Ridge and surroundings. |
| DASS | OH | sort of | Rockcastle/Pulaski (Coral Cave) |
| CUSS | KY | Yes | Carter County |
| ESSO | KY/WV | Yes | Carter Co and northeastern Ky |
| Pine Mountain Grotto | KY/WV | Yes | Far southeastern Ky, Pine Mtn./Cumberland Gap area and into Virginia. John Taylor is the contact here, he's pretty enthusiastic about this organization and has a lot of data. |
| Central Ohio Grotto | OH | Yes | Rockcastle/Pulaski/Wayne |
| WUSS | OH | Yes | Carter County |
| Greater Cincinnati Grotto | OH | Yes | Rockcastle/Pulaski Co./Jackson Cp |
| Dayton Underground Grotto | OH | Yes | Rockcastle/Pulaski Co./Jackson Co |
| CRF | Yes | Mammoth Cave National Park | |
| Chattanooga Grotto | TN | ? | ?Wayne County? |
| D.C. Grotto | DC | ? | Mike Dyas and others from D.C. Grotto up in Maryland used to be working in Central Ky, but I don't know what's happened to them in recent years. He was heavily involved in Fisher Ridge and WKSS at one time in the past, caved with Joe Saunders, Keith Ortiz, et al from DUG. |
| The James Cavers | Mammoth Area but the majority is off of park property. They do have some significant findings on Bald Knob and Martin Ridge. | ||
| Alan Glennon, et al. | I don't know what group he really would represent. However, he and his friends have made some significant strides in Martin Ridge and a few other places. | ||
| Central Kentucky Karst Coalition | KY | ? | Jim Borden, Roppel Cave section of Mammoth Cave and other small caves outside Mammoth Cave National Park. |