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

Room	Date	Named By	Explanation
P & B's Palace	02/13/1999	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Emma Porter, Mike Clayton
P-U-Wazoo	12/06/1987	Darren Ressler, Shaun Larson, Karen Rosga	A small room that had no place to sit, because everything was covered with popcorn. When Shaun first entered this area he exclaimed, "there is popcorn up the wazoo here!!" This became "P-U-Wazoo".
Padded Cell Room	07/12/1973	Andy Flurkey, Rick Banning
Pail of Fill
Painful Pass	05/04/1981	Llyn Peabody, Rich Oilman, Steve Matson, Alex Kazarinof	A tight crawl at NN5-6.
Paint Pots	07/13/1973	Don Coons, Andy Flurkey, Alvin McLane	An area where the walls and ceiling are very colorful due to mineral stains in the limestone.
Painted Ceiling	07/01/1971	John Scheltens, Nelson Kuniansky, Andy Flurkey
Palace Fireplace	<1901		Located in the Second Crossroads.
Palace of Plutus	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Paleo Dome	07/24/2000	Rod Horrocks, John Harty	A 20-foot diameter dome, with a 13-foot high ceiling that is an outstanding and well known example of paleofill. Located on the west edge of Omnibus Hall. Discovered by Herb and Jan Conn and Dave Schnute on July 1964, it was surveyed and named by Rod and John on 07/24/2000.
Paleo Falls	08/07/2007	Chris Amidon, Abby Tobin, Scott Babinowich, Kristen Schulte	While climbing a dome to set a survey point, Abby knocked a piece of chert which caused a cascade of paleofill, thus the name.
Paleo Loop	11/12/1990	Ted Lappin, Mike Behn, Ed La Rock
Paleofill Palace	06/13/1992	Steve Smith, Kevin Smith, Becky Ward	A 20-foot diameter room with lots of paleofill in it.
Palette Room	07/01/1972	Don Coons	A large slab of breakdown in this room has a 3-foot diameter hole in it, making the entire slab resemble an artist's palette.
Palisades	<1893	Alvin McDonald?
Palmer Avenue	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pancake Estates	11/10/1990	Garry Petrie, Norm Thompson, Pat Seiser	A 20'x40' foot room with a one foot ceiling height.
Pancake Room	11/25/1988	David Gerboth, Matt Kramar, Mark Wickham	A low-ceilinged room located near Mud Crack Flats.
Panken Avenue	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pant Peeler	10/08/1994	Randy Brown, Rene Singer, Evan Anderson, Hazel Barton	A tight crawl that "peeled" Randy's pants and underwear off as he crawled through.
Paper Mill	05/08/2004	Mike Wiles, Carl Bern, Andy Poczobutt	Named after some white, leathery-like flexible boxwork found in this passage.
Paradise Regained	07/12/1891	A.C. McBride, Alvin McDonald
Parlor	06/22/1891	M.E. Crookam, Alvin McDonald
Parnells Gems	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Partition, The	03/17/1891	Alvin McDonald
Pass D’ Keppler	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pasta Pulverizer	03/15/1980	John Scheltens, Ken Alliger, Dave Springhetti, Mike Wiles	A miserable series of crawls from the Magic Hole to the Spaghetti Bowl.
Pattys Folly	08/01/1970	John Scheltens, Patty Cowin	A small dead end passage near Base Camp 1, that was checked when Patty's Dad boosted her up into the lead.
Pattys Junction	05/29/1974		A junction of two calcite jungle passages.
Paul Bunyon	06/?/1973?	Mark Stock, Lester Lewis, David Springhetti	On the PB or Paul Bunyon survey.
Paulas Virgin Pit	05/04/1981	Steve Matson, Peter Shaipsota, John Sparks, Judson Ramelolyn
Pauls Place	06/12/1999	Jim Wilson, Greg Glazner, Eric Dutton, Dennis Laird	A lower level passage named for a Colorado Grotto caver Paul O'Brian who had recently died (not in Wind Cave).
Paulson Dome	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pavillion Circle	<06/01/1893	Alvin McDonald
Peace Chamber	05/11/1991	Doug Kent, Ken Hedrick, Chris Wooley
Peacemakers, The	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Peanut Gallery	<1901
Pearl Harbor	12/07/2004	Rod Horrocks, Steve Baldwin, Alexis Brooks, Vickie Siegel	The surveyors discovered this new room on the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The room was also coavered with thick deposits of "pearly white" moonmilk.
Pearly Gates	07/23/1891	Alvin McDonald, Charles Holmes, C.F. McBride	Large white popcorn crystals in this area resemble pearls and are located on rocks on either side of the entry into the room beyond. Also reported that it was named because Oscar Merwin thought that that is what the Pearly Gates into Heaven would look like.
Pearly Gates Annex	07/23/1891	Alvin McDonald, Charles Holmes, C.F. McBride	A series of passages that run northwest of the Pearly Gates area.
Pearly Gates Bypass	07/23/1891	Alvin McDonald, Charles Holmes, C.F. McBride	A passage that parallels the Tabernacle and leads to the Pearly Gates.
Pearly Gates Junction	07/23/1891	Alvin McDonald, Charles Holmes, C.F. McBride	The junction of the candlelight "developed" trail with the candlelight "undeveloped" trail.
Pearly Gates Route	<1901		Also known as the Candlelight Tour.
Pebble, The	1882	Alvin McDonald	This is a very, very large chunk of breakdown located at the base of the stairs leading to the Coliseum. Also called the Fallen Giant.
Pecks Pit	07/13/1973	John Scheltens, Rick Banning, Dave Springhetti	A small pit located near the Pearly Gates. Name was on a 1963 map by Daniel Fredman.
Pecks Retreat	<1893	Alvin McDonald?
Pee Bottle Hall	07/31/1991	Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison, Carl Pagano, Rich Wolfert
Pee Heights	10/14/2000	Rod Horrocks, Derek Wolfe, Jonathan Brinson	While following his survey crew and sketching, Rod vocalized that bridging on large boxwork at the top of a five-foot wide overhung pit, that was 30+ feet deep, was "pee picking scary", thus the name.
Pee Run	10/14/2000	Rod Horrocks, Derek Wolfe, Jonathan Brinson	A passage named after the rest of the group was amazed when skinny little teenager, Derek, filled a pee bottle he borrowed from Jonathan. He had already filled his quart pee bottle and another one he had borrowed from Rod.
Pee Wees Playhouse	08/27/1987	Jim Nepstad, Jim Pisarowicz, Karen Rosga	Fun, easy to survey passage. The night before the group had all had watched the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
Peek-In Pit	07/?/1972	Ed Pekin	A play on Ed's last name?
Pelvis Room	11/11/2000	Jim Wilson, Barbara Smith, Skip Withrow, Greg Glazner	Named because the room connects several passages, much like the pelvis connects several bones in the body. In keeping with the bone theme of the area, which started at the Elbow Room.
Pendant Room	03/07/2000	Rod Horrocks, Marc Ohms	A 35-foot diameter room, known since the 1890's, that has a 10-foot high ceiling and a prominent popcorn-covered pendant protruding from the center of the ceiling. Named during Rod and Marc's resurvey of the room.
Penelopes Peek-Hole Pool	12/15/1986	Jim Pisarowicz, Bob Kobza	Small pool or lake at the end of a small fissure. One can peek into the water through a small hole.
Pennington Avenue	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Perilous Pit	07/02/1891	Alvin McDonald, M.E. Crookam, Willie Crookam, George Lee
Permanent Chocolate Junction	08/09/1989	Darren Ressler, Mary Laycock, Art Palmer, Peg Palmer, Michelle Youngquist, Brad Stephenson	Junction to the Bubble that has a dark manganese ceiling with scratches in it. Named because of its resemblance to chocolate and because of Mary's fetish with chocolate.
Pernells Jems	<1901
Pervert Alley	09/12/1992	Harry Burgess, Stan Allison, Paul Burger, Dave Springhetti	A 10-foot wide, 8-9 inch high and 70-foot long "snaggy" crawl first traversed by Harry.
Peteys Puddle	03/16/1965	Dave Schnute, Judy Petersen, Dennis Davenport	The name derives when Judy, who went by the nickname Petey, found a small, almost dried up lake. In reference to Senator Peter Norbeck who pushed for a dam in Wind Cave National Park to be built north of the visitor's center so that the wildlife would have a source of water. However, the reservoir was built over porous rock and it never held water. Resurveyed by Don Coons, Andy Flurkey, and Alvin McLane on 07/13/1973.
Petrified Alligator	<1901
Petrified Clouds	<1901
Petrified Road Runner	09/11/1993	Dave Lester, Rich Wolfert, Kirk Haley
Petrified Swan Room	<03/1891	Alvin McDonald	The "swan" was broken and removed form the cave in March of 1891, which really angered Alvin McDonald as the swan was the only noteworthy feature in this room.
Petty Hole, The	01/09/1993	Sandy Kraemer, Pat Jablonsky, Bill Yett

Room	Date	Named By	Explanation
Phantom Flying Dutchman	01/09/1993	Rene Rogers, Marc Ohms, Paul Burger	A 250-foot long, 10-foot wide lake rediscovered by Rene Rogers. After finding this lake the team discovered a single set of foot prints on the far side of the lake. It has been speculated that these foot prints were from Alvin McDonald. Alvin reported discovering a river, which many people had discounted.
Phantom Lake	01/23/1999	Rene Rogers, Marc Ohms, Paul Burger	A 250-foot long, 10-foot wide lake rediscovered by Rene Rogers. After finding this lake the team discovered a single set of foot prints on the far side of the lake. It has been speculated that these foot prints were from Alvin McDonald. Alvin reported discovering a river, which many people had discounted.
Phase III	<12/1973	Colorado Grotto
Philistine Palace	08/11/1892	Alvin McDonald, Sydia J.
Phish Bowl	07/11/1992	Dena Venezky	A round room with red clay and bright white aragonite crystals that looked like a fish bowl. Vena, who was a groupie of the rock band Phish and who dated the drummer, suggested the play on the spelling of fish.
Phone Home	07/11/1992	Jim Wilson, Bill Yett, Aaron Birenboim, Dina Venezdy
Photographic Gallery	<06/30/1891	Alvin McDonald?
Phototropic Passage	09/24/1987		A classic middle level boxwork passage between the Fairgrounds and the Attic.
Piano	07/04/1891	Alvin McDonald, M.E. Crookam, Willie Crookam, George Lee	A large rock at the entrance to Browns Canyon that resembles a piano.
Pickle, The	07/05/1978	Tom Miller, Art Palmer, Peg Palmer, Janie Leroy	A 15-foot high dome near Silent Lake.
Pickled Herring Atrium	12/20/1990	Paul Burger, Stan Allison	The surveyors were in a silly mood at the time, so they picked a silly name for the silly room.
Picnic Grounds	06/19/1892	Alvin McDonald, J. Coldvion, A.J. Vagg, H.D. Worat
Pie in the Sky	06/18/1992	Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison, Bob Kobza	A small hole in the ceiling that Bob hoped led to an upper level. He finally pushed some breakdown below it on a work trip and discovered an upper level room that was 70-feet in diameter with a 40-foot ceiling.
Pile Up	10/08/1980	Ken Allgier, Tom Miller, John Scheltens, Pete Shiflett	A large pile of breakdown.
Pilgrims Lunch Room	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pilgrims Progress	03/20/1892	Alvin McDonald, Elmer McDonald, J.D. McDonald, George Stabler
Pine Trees	07/31/1972	William Frith, Mark Stock?	3 1/2" high.
Pink Plumage	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pink Slug	05/25/1987	Jim Pisarowicz, Curt Broeker, Darren Ressler, Karen Rosga	As Karen Rosga crawled through this passage she remarked that she felt like a "pink slug" (she was wearing pink tights under her coveralls).
Pinkys Passage	<04/11/1993
Pins & Needles Factory	02/02/1985	John Scheltens, Dave Springhetti, Andy Flurkey, Alan Williams	A room with multitudes of small selenite needles.
Pipers Pig	<1898
Pit B	1974	NPS Rangers	A 70-foot deep narrow slot with sandy walls that was a "pain in the Butt", thus Pit B.
Pit Room	11/24/1988	David Gerboth	A room near the Pancake Room that has a 43-foot pit in it down to the MK survey.
Pits, The	08/07/1987	Jim Nepstad, Darren Ressler, Karen Rosga	Area with many deep holes, passages going down 30-40 feet and more.
Pittease, The	05/11/1996	Hazel Barton, Evan Anderson, Shawn Kramer	A 26-foot deep pit that gets too tight.
Pizza Hut	12/05/1998	Marc Ohms, Myk Coughlin, Rene Rogers, Mike Wiles	A 100-foot long, 60-foot wide room. The room was named because all the explorers could talk about was going to Pizza Hut for dinner after the trip.
Pizza Potluck Pool	05/18/1988	Jim Pisarowicz, Shaun Larson	A small pool of water.
PK Room
PKS Room	02/13/1993	Sandy Kraemer, Kathy Petty, Pat Jablonsky	A 20-foot diameter and 7-foot high room named after the first letter of each survey participant.
Platts Cove	06/12/1996	Abigail Wines, Gairet Goodrich, Rachel Bosch	A flowstone area with lots of dripping water.
Playground, The	11/16/1991	Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison, Paul Burger	An area with several hands and knees leads that seemed like a playground for some future survey team. This name was one of several in the area that had a school theme (Cafeteria was also named by the group).
Pleasant Surprise	04/19/2005	Jason Walz, Larry Shaffer, Sara Booth, Chris Dale	An extensive walking passage found pas a squeeze that Larry commented on the way out of the cave that, "that was a pleasnt surprise."
Plummers Pit	1959	Bill Buckingham, William Plummer	An 80-foot high dead-end chimney which extends out of the Madison limestone and into the Minnelusa beds above the cave. It may be an excavated (1935) paleofilled vertical shaft like the Two Cent Stope? Originally climbed by Bill Buckingham and William Plummer as part of the 1959 NSS Wind Cave Expedition. Later surveyed by Lester Lewis, Dave Springhetti and Mark Stock
Pocket Knife Pit	08/31/2000	Marc Ohms, Rene Rogers, Ed Schnek	A blowing pit off of Wall Street where an old pocketknife was found at the top of a pit that had been hammered into. This pit led to the discovery of the Hades area.
Pocket Turns Room	02/26/2007	Jason Walz, Ron Rossknecht, Trevor Rossknecht	The room in this area has quick turns that take one back to where they started similar to pocket turns in barrel racing.
Poka Dot Mall	09/12/1992	Dave Lester, Steve Lester, Randy Brown, Kirk Haley	There are balls of aragonite/moonmilk on the floor of this passage.
Polar Bear			On the Pearly Gates Route.
Polar Ice Cap	11/13/1982	Andy Flurkey, Ed LaRock, Eric Liebes, John Scheltens	Named for its abundance of frostwork clusters.
Polishing Works	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Pompei	05/17/1991	Bob Kobza, Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison, Mike Paulick
Pool of Siloam	09/04/1892	Alvin McDonald, Alfred Gere
Pop Corn Alley	<1901
Pop Corn Pit	12/12/1982	Ken Allgier, John Scheltens, Dave Springhetti	A popcorn encrusted pit.
Pop Secret	11/10/1990	Jim Nepstad, Greg Nepstad, Paul Burger, Stan Allison	A passage with very large popcorn. The name comes from a commercial brand name for popcorn.
Popcorn Chamber	<06/01/1893	Alvin McDonald
Popcorn Extension	12/09/2006	Rod Horrocks, Ken Geu, Duff McCafferty	A passage that is heavily covered with popcorn on all surfaces. This fissure passage extends to the SE from the Temple. The fissure continuation of this passage on the other side of the Temp to the NW is also covered with some fantastic popcorn displays.
Popcorn Forest Room	11/29/1986	Dave Gerboth, Jim Pisarowicz, Karen Rosga	This room is covered with popcorn that looks like trees in a miniature forest.
Popcorn Machine, The	3/17/2001	Matt Reece, Dan Durben	A dome that has lots of popcorn.
Popcorn Ranch	03/01/2005	Jason Walz, Larry Shaffer	A room that is totally covered with a heavy duty calcified popcorn.
Popcorn Room	1963	?	Large amounts of popcorn are found in this room. Another room surveyed by the Windy City Surveyed on December 2.,1971 by a team including John Scheltens.
Porcelain Passage	12/09/1987	Jim Pisarowicz, Bob Kobza, Shaun Larson	This passage is coated with white frostwork, gypsum luster, and moonmilk. It is entered via a small hole which is also completely white and very difficult to get into without destroying the beautiful crystals and minerals.
Porcupette Passion	12/06/1987	Shaun Larson, Darren Ressler, Karen Rosga	Porcupettes are baby porcupines and the cave popcorn in this area was very bristly. It was in honor of December's "Animal of the Month".
Porcupine Lips	04/23/1981	Tod Cedarholm, Keith Gorges, Mike Pebriere, Beth Bellman, Corrin Crawford	An area of mega stalactites named by a NOLS survey party.
Post Office	06/05/1884	L.C. Faris, Frank Halden, Charlie Roe	Named for its abundance of boxwork, which resembles post office boxes. This room was probably known even earlier than 1884, but this date is the first written reference to this room. First reference with this name, June 5, 1884.
Potluck Pool	12/06/1987	Jim Pisarowicz, Shaun Larson	There was to be a potluck that night for the park staff, thus the name. It is a small pool of water.
Potters Shop	02/11/1891	Alvin McDonald, J.M. Moore	Named because of the shape of the sediment crust. "In this room a person can get stone in almost any shape they want it some of the vessels being large enough for watering troughs".
Pottery Passage	12/15/1979	John Sheltens, Andy Flurkey, Norm Pace
Powderpuff Room	11/16/2004	Jason Walz, Larry Shaffer, Peggy Renwick	A small room covered with powdery moonmilk that was a few inches deep.
Power House	04/12/1991	Stan Allison, Jim Nepstad, Dina Venezky	A 30-foot diameter room with an eight foot ceiling that has electrical equipment in it.
Prairie Dog Town and Mound	<02/1891		Two drip cups located on a mud mound. One of the guides placed a rock that resembled a prairie dog near these holes. A woman from Chicago stole the prairie dog, but returned it when contacted by mail.
Presidents Grotto	<1893	Alvin McDonald	Near the Grand View?
Press Room
Prime Avenue	01/18/2005	Rod Horrocks, Alexis Brooks, Ari Juhala, Amy Juhala	A walking-size canyon that parallels Snowdrift Avenue and goes from Marbled Hall all the way to the north edge of the cave. It used to be the E' (E prime) survey before it was resurveyed and subsequently named Prime Avenue.
Professor Harris’ Sanctum	<1893	Alvin McDonald
Professor Romaine	<1901
Promenade, The	10/12/2002	Rod Horrocks, Seth Spoelman, Jay Kennedy	A room that skirts the bottom of the Amphitheater, as a Promenade skirts a theater.
Pterodactyl Hall	11/19/1991	Doug Pflugh, Tom Shelby, Kreg Hanburger, Rebecca Bear
Pub	04/20/1981	Liz Chapman, Cory Crawford, Steve Matson, Kathy Raymond
Pumpkin Patch	<06/01/1893	Alvin McDonald
Puppy Tooth Walk	10/30/1985	Jim Pisarowicz, Heidi Grengg, Fred Roberts, Lars Virbeck	Small dog-tooth spar (which looked like puppy-teeth to Lars) in the passage.
Purple People Eater	12/08/1987	Jim Pisarowicz, Bob Kobza, Shaun Larson	Some "flowstone-like" stuff on the floor and walls in this crawlway have a purplish tint to them. This is probably the result of manganese compounds.
Puzzlement Room	12/13/2003	Jim Wilson, Skip Withrow, Barb Smith	A 60-foot diameter room where the surveyors found a single survey station at the entrance to the room, but the room itself hadn't been surveyed.
Pyramid Room	08/22/1964	Dave Schnute, Herb Conn, Jan Conn	The Conn's built a large cairn in this room so they would recognize the room on the way out, thus the name.
Pyritetude	08/26/2007	Chris Amidon, Erin Niedringhaus, Alison Carlyle, Robert Fishe	After finding some unusal minerals that showed an opalescence and other crystals that looked like pyrite, the surveyors thought that the pyrite looked like it had an "attitude", thus the name.