Lost River - Karst Information Portal

You can get to the pit in two different ways.
By crossing the Blue River from Stage Stop at
the rope swing and hiking straight up the hill,
or from the Langdons parking area. This is a
35-foot-deep pit.
A caver ascending Issac Pit.
Photo by Todd Webb.
This pit is located in the Harrison Crawford
State Forest near the head of a small valley
off the Ohio River. It can be reached by way of
Cold Friday Hollow or by driving to the end
of Lickford Valley Road and walking along the
river and up the small valley. Either way it is a
long, 2-mile walk.
The difficult-to-find entrance is a small
2-foot-diameter hole on a wooded hillside,
between the “Y” in the two small ravines that
form the valley. The entrance pit is 73 feet deep
Isaac Pit
Jays Pit Cave
Harrison County Caves
The adventure trail also passes within sight
of the 3-foot by 4-foot entrance.
A 100-foot rope is needed for rigging the
entrance drop and a second drop of 16 feet.
and a 110-foot-long rope is needed for rigging.
The pit opens up immediately for a nice wall
drop into a 30-foot-long by 15-foot-wide dome.
A 6-foot-high, breakdown-floored shale passage
leads in 50 feet to a second pit. This pit is 40
feet deep and blind at the bottom. By traversing
a ledge around this pit a shale crawlway can be
reached. This crawl is 3 feet tall and in 40 feet a
second parallel pit is encountered. This pit is 27
feet deep and 15 feet across. The bottom of the
pit contains a massive flowstone drapery and a
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