Wind Cave National Park - Wind Cave Room Names - F (U.S. National Park Service)

Room	Date	Named By	Explanation
FA Room	11/06/1980	Todd Cedarholm, Kim Ellison, Steve Matson, Craig Wagner
Fabulous Path	10/12/2002	Jason Walz, Mike Wiles, Noah Daniels	A passage that leads to a nice room (Ultraville) on the edge of the cave.
Facial, The	<5/20/1985		A short bellycrawl that forces one face into the floor.
Fair Maids Pathway	<01/04/1891	Alvin McDonald
Fairgrounds, The	03/20/1892	George A. Stabler, Alvin McDonald, Elmer McDonald, J.D. McDonald	This room was the largest discovered in Wind Cave until the Club Room was found in 1964. It was called the Fairgrounds by George Stabler because every feature of the cave could be found there.
Fairy Palace	05/01/1982	Jim Chisholm, Hal Johnson, Heide McClire	This area exhibits a nice display of flowstone, stalactites and stalagmites.
Fairy Palace Loop	<1962
Fairy Wonderland	<1974
Faith, Hope & Charity	12/26/1983	John Scheltens, Dave Springhetti	These are the names of the 3 columns which give rise to the name Tri-Column Sandway.
Fallen Flats	<1899	Alvin McDonald, F.L. McAdam, Bob McAdam	This name derived from the large, flat breakdown on the floor of this room. Later called G.A.R. Hall (Grand Army of the Republic Hall). Now known as the Assembly Room. Discovered by Alvin McDonald, Elmer McDonald, and Melvin Moore on 01/12/1891.
Fallen Giant	06/07/1976	Leroy Simon, ? Knapp, ? Ward	This is a very, very large chunk of breakdown located at the base of the stairs leading to the Coliseum. Alvin McDonald referred to it as the Pebble.
Fallen Leaf Room	03/04/1979	John Scheltens, Carole Loskot, Dave Springhetti, Mike Wiles	In this room there is an abundance of calcite rafts on the walls and floors which look like fallen leaves.
Fallopian Tube, The	12/13/2003	Evan Anderson, Steve Lester, Shawn Kramer
False Alarm Freeway	08/?/1972	Mark Stock, Nelson Kuniansky
False Floor City	12/15/1984	Jim Pisarowicz, Warren Netherton	There is a series of broken false floors in this area of the cave. Some of then drop down 30 feet or more.
Fan Rock	<1893	Alvin McDonald	A huge piece of fallen boxwork that resembles a lady's fan half opened. On the Candlelight Tour in Union College.
Faries Palace	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Faries Snow Balls	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Farleys Freeway	01/10/1998	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Shawn Kramer, Myk Coughlin	A big, beautiful passage found right after comedian Chris Farley passed away.
Farleys Pharmacy	02/14/1998	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Shawn Kramer, Myk Coughlin	An alliteration based on comedian Chris Farleys then recent death from a massive overdose of drugs, causing heart failure.
Farmers Dome	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Fat Womans Misery	06/1891	Alvin McDonald	A crawl or squeeze where the Rescue Stairs are located on the Garden of Eden Tour.
Feather Bed Crawl	06/12/1987	Jim Nepstad, Jim Pisarowicz, Darren Ressler	Crawlway which is covered with very soft and powdery soil.
Feminine Side, The	09/17/1998	Jim Nepstad, Rene Rogers	A room along the east edge of the cave that is accessed through a tight hole that was named the Wedge, and which, only Rene could fit through.
Ferret Loop	07/08/2000	Tom Dotter, Karl Mayne, Karla Whittenburg, Kim McVey	A small, 200-foot long loop.
Fetal Pit	06/12/1993	Sandy Kramer, Kathy Petty, Clarence Williams
Figure Eight Room	08/01/1971	Andy Flurkey, Chris Hill, Bob Reinstatler	The outline of this major intersection in Half-Mile Hall resembles a large "8", giving the room its name. This is the second largest known room in the cave.
Figured Statue, The	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Fill-In-The Blank Room	05/08/2004	Rod Horrocks, Chris Amidon, Leno Lippold	This room was located in a blank area of the map that Rod had been trying for some time to penetrate.
Fireball Hall	04/22/1986	Jim Nepstad, Greg Nepstad, Jim Pisarowicz	A passage named after the fireball candy that Jim Nepstad had just put into his mouth moments before the team crawled into this room.
Firemans Curse, The	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Fish Eggs	12/26/1981	John Scheltens, Mike Wiles, Dave Springhetti
Fish Room	12/11/1993	James Wilson, Mike Zawada, Steve Kumpf
Fisher Traverse		Ken Carpenter
Fishermans Rest	02/09/1893	Alvin McDonald
Fissure Kingdom	02/09/2008	Rod Horrocks, Roger Harris, Duff McCafferty	This middle level room has numerous fissures radiating off of it with many other nearby fissures connecting down to the Candlelight Tour area and up to the WB survey.
Fissure Passage	1973	Mark Stock, Lester Lewis
Five Finger Fall	11/29/1986	Dave Gerboth, Jim Pisarowicz, Karen Rosga	While surveying over this 25-foot pit, Karen Rosga dropped one of her gloves. The pit was deep enough and overhung such that the party could not retrieve the glove. A later trip did descend the pit and mapped about a quarter of a mile of cave at the bottom of this pit.
Five Points	06/13/1891	Alvin McDonald	Five passages radiate from this room. Now known as the Eastern Star Room.
Flailing Feet Crawl	05/26/1991	Stan Allison, Paul Burger, Dina Venezky, Bob Younger	A fifty-foot long crawl in which the explorers feet were seen flailing around.
Flaming Match Room	04/14/2007	Rod Horrocks, Roger Harris, Ken Geu, Duff McCafferty	A wooden match was found by the surveyors in this virgin dirt-floored room. Apparently, it had been thrown into the room through the tight entrance passage in the 1890's.
Flaming Pink Tights Pit	05/25/1987	Jim Pisarowicz, Curt Broeker, Darren Ressler, Karen Rosga	A pit where the ledges along the sides of the passage are all sloping steeply down and there is a thin layer of mud on the ledges and footholds.
Flapjack Room	01/11/1992	Jim Clark, Veronica Stahl, Kirk Haley, Jerry Hassemer	A large room by only 2-feet high.
Flat Top Chamber	07/09/1891	Alvin McDonald
Flatiron	06/14/1997	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Shawn Kramer, Myk Coughlin	A large flat-toped breakdown block.
Flatiron Hall	06/14/1997	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Shawn Kramer, Myk Coughlin	Shawn thought the rocks in this passage resembled the Flatiron Mountains near his Boulder, Colorado home, heavily tilted and jetting upwards into the air.
Flatlands	10/03/2006	Rod Horrocks, Vickie Siegel, William Stone	A nearly flat room and adjoining hall.
Fliesstein Paradise	03/06/2007	Jason Walz, Marcell Gelligen, Johannes Nitsche, Ole-Kristian Heyer	A flowstone and dripstone area that was named for the German word "Fliesstein", which means "flowing stone".
Flood Plains	01/01/1999	Marc Ohms, Paul Burger, Renee Rogers	Low-ceilinged area (1-3'), lots of mud and flood debris (pine needles…). Led to Phantom Lake.
Floorduh	07/14/1990	Stan Allison, Paul Burger	False floors are found in this room. Mislabeled Floordum on the map.
Florist Grotto	<1893	Alvin McDonald	Located near the Coliseum.
Flounder Hall	12/08/1990	Ted Lappin, Steve Reames, Bethany Jablonsky, Stan Allison
Flounder Hole	01/08/2000	Evan Anderson, Pat Roberson, Shawn Kramer, Micxah Ball
Flour Tube	12/11/1993	Rod Horrocks, Clair Call, Kevin Pippen, Joel Despain, Doug Kent	An upper-level passage off the Rainbow Rooms with corrosion residue walls that resembles flour. It has lots of bat scratches. First entered by the survey crew by climbing on Clair's back.
Flower Garden	07/23/1891	Alvin McDonald, Charles Holmes, C.F. McBride.
Flower Shop	06/30/1976	Phil Dodge, Bob Hirschy, Bob Huber, Jim Palmer	Named for the large number of gypsum flowers.
Flowers of the Night	04/22/1986	Jim Nepstad, Greg Nepstad, Jim Pisarowicz	Small crawlway with nice anthrodites (literally stone flowers in Greek).
Flowfinger Falls	11/21/1985	Jim Pisarowicz, John Gookin, Matt Soete, Geoff Williams	An area with flowstone and soda straws which look like fingers hanging down from the ceiling.
Flowstone Dome, The	09/03/1991	Jim Clark, Kirk Haley, Veronica Stahl	A 20-foot high dome with lots of sodastraws, stalactites, draperies, flowstone and stalagmites.
Flowstone Fantasy Freeway	05/13/2000	John Scheltens, Ed LaRock, Mike Behn	A three-foot high upper-level phreatic tube with a flowstone floor.
Flying Zambino, The	06/12/1987	Jim Nepstad, Jim Pisarowicz, Darren Ressler	A 20-foot climb where the walls are very crumbly and threatened to turn the explorers into impromptu acrobats. The name "Zambino" came from the pencil that the explorers were using to take notes. On that pencil was the name "Ann Zambino".
Foggy Mountain	<1973
Fools Hollow	01/11/1997	Jim Wilson, Bruce Albright, Randy Williams, Dan Wray
Forbidden Fruit	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Forty Mile Hall	06/11/1984	Warren Netherton, Jim Pisarowicz, Karen Rosga	In this room the total surveyed length of Wind Cave reached and exceeded 40 miles.
Fossil Chamber	<06/01/1893	Alvin McDonald
Fossil Reef	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Foul Spark Plug, The	02/14/2004	Derek Wolfe, Dan Mottinger, Donna Swigert	This canyon and room were named because the surveyors were only able to find a survey designation and not the actual survey station, which forced them to resurvey it.
Foul Temptress, The	08/03/2004	Chris Amidon, Meredith Dreyer, Valoree Varick	A very tempting hole that was too small for the surveyors to fit into.
Four Skinner, The	5/12/2001	Evan Anderson, Jim Olsen, Hazel Barton, Suzette Kane
Fragile Land	08/08/1972	Alvin McLane, Scott Brougham, Ted Self
Free Mason Hall	<1923		A room that has four breakdown blocks along each side of the trail that reassemble chairs.
Freedom Bowl	01/01/1991	Jim Nepstad, Bob Kobza, Stan Allison	Named after the football bowl game. The surveyors were caving on January 1, the day when most Americans were watching the bowl games.
French Coach Horse	<1901
French Pastry Parlor	02/02/1985	John Scheltens, Dave Springhetti, Andy Flurkey, Alan Williams	John had recently had some French pastries at the Epcott Center in Florida and the triple false floors with piles of rafts reminded him of those. It is a difficult room to get to.
Freshman Fairgrounds	07/29/1977	Sue Fenner, Bob Huber, Jim Lindley, ? Simon
Freshman Frostline	07/29/1977	Sue Fenner, Bob Huber, Jim Lindley and ? Simon	A large quantity of aragonite ("frostwork") in found in this area that looks like a smaller version of the Frostline.
Frost Hall	09/03/2000	Carl Bern, Jeff Goben, Derek Wolfe, Chris Schneider	A short fissure passage with frostwork-covered walls.
Frostbite Hole	09/03/2000	Carl Bern, Jeff Goben, Derek Wolfe, Chris Schneider	A frostwork lined hole that led to Frost Hall.
Frosted Cereal Bowl	08/03/2004	Rod Horrocks, Grahm Hogg, Randy Oliver, Brad Hill	A bowl-shaped room that was covered with moonmilk.
Frosted Cobwebs	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Frosted Flake Room	05/09/2000	Rod Horrocks, Sam Russell, Erik Freeman, Sandy Myers	A bowl-shaped room that was covered with moonmilk.
Frostline Overpass	05/11/1991	Steve Smith, Kevin Smith, Jerry Hassmer	A short upper-level passage that passes over the Frostline. Loose rock and a fissure in the floor that ties into the Frostline, prevent this route from being used.
Frostline, The	08/22/1964	Dave Schnute, Herb Conn, Jan Conn	Spectacular examples of frostwork can be seen in this area. All the frostwork seems to have developed below a line which can clearly be seen in the rooms at either end, hence the name. The Conn's were hoping this frostwork would lead to a lot more cave.
Frostwork Ledge
Frozen Waterfall	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Funk, The	02/07/2006	Rod Horrocks, Alexis Brooks, Derek Marohn	When Derek commented that the room they were in was funky, the other two looked at each other and simultaneously said, "The Funk", referring to his comments and the state of mind that Alexis was in earlier while trying to draw the area.
Fun Passage	11/09/1996	Mike Wiles, Marc Ohms, Noah Daniels
Fungus Humongous	11/16/1991	Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison, Bob Kobza	A walking passage off of Gypsy Road that has a huge inverted mushroom made of chert similar to the smaller one found just past Hobsons Choice on the Red and White trail.
Funnel Chimney	08/01/1971	Chris Hill	A funnel-shapped dome.
Funnel Fissure	<1974