Camps Gulf Gallery

CAMPS GULF

Camps Gulf Cave, located in Van Buren County, Tennessee, is renowned for its large chambers. This four-plus-mile cave contains no less than three humongous rooms, one of which (measuring over 400 by 700 feet in size) is one of the most volumous cave chambers east of the Mississippi River. The cave is so vast, and the chambers so difficult to navigate, explorers routinly never make it out of the first room. The techical and logistical challenges in imaging such large chambers are many. Communication is virtually impossible due to the distances involved. The vastness of the chambers make lighting them especially problematic. Hundreds of dollars in flashbulbs, radio, and camera equipment were utilized to create these images.