Baker Cave is located in north eastern Pulaski County, near Rockcastle County. It was in 1996 when I last went there, with my caving partner David, and these pictures were made then.

We had asked one of the residents in the area how to get there, and he told us, and said it was ok to go to the cave. I don't know about now. We walked back across the pasture, which had cows then, and went back to a hill, and eventually found the entrance, which is shown above.

I haven't been through all the cave. My understanding is that it is fairly simple. It has one opening in a creekbed, and another shown here, where we walked in. People that we talked with said you can go in this entrance and go past the large room and then down a "slide", and on around to the other opening. One person said it might be a half mile between the two. I don't know about that. We found what I think is probably the other opening some distance from this entrance. We found a drain hole in a creek bed. We were told that this cave floods at times. I saw stick debris lodged in the ceiling of the walking tunnel, which is well over my head along much of it. I wouldn't go in there after a lot of rain, or if I was expecting a good rain. There might be more to this cave. We went to the large room pictured below, and a short distance beyond that. The ceiling sloped down a lot, and we didn't feel like stoop-walking far, so we stopped there. We both had a job that required a lot of stooping.

This photo shows the walking tunnel as it is not far from the entrance. We found several interesting formations in this cave, what we saw of it. There are more formations in this one than in others we explored. I expected to find formations in a lot of cave passages we went to, but didn't. A lot of it is just rock. Some of the small caves have more formations in porportion.

This is an example of the walking tunnel that goes back to the main room, or hall, or whatever you want to call it. If there is a bigger room, I don't know about it. It was easy walking. It is good for beginners. Just don't go when it rains. Seems like there was only this main tunnel. I don't remember any side tunnels. We found a fork, but I think they converged. Not sure now.

More formations. I think most of this was near the entrance, where we went in. It was spread out, but not far in, if I remember right.

The formations are still wet and active, or were then in 96.

This one looks to me like a hand under a bird.

This is the larger area we came to after a relatively short walk. This photo was an open shutter shot, with multiple flashes. You can see the light trail from my pocket flashlight. There a couple of large stalagmites back there.

This is the same tunnel, in reverse direction. My caving partner was standing next to the wall on the left. You can see graffiti that some inconsiderate person sprayed on the wall. We found a lot of graffiti in various caves.

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