We present the design and operation of an ytterbium ion trap experiment with a setup offering versatile optical access and 90 electrical interconnects that can host advanced surface and multilayer ion trap chips mounted on chip carriers. We operate a macroscopic ion trap compatible with this chip carrier design and characterize its performance, demonstrating secular frequencies 1 MHz, and trap and cool nearly all of the stable isotopes, including ions, as well as ion crystals. For this particular trap we measure the motional heating rate 〈ṅ〉 and observe an 〈ṅ〉∝1/ω2 behavior for different secular frequencies . We also determine a spectral noise density Hz at an ion electrode spacing of 310(10) m. We describe the experimental setup for trapping and cooling Yb ions and provide frequency measurements of the and transitions for the stable , , , , and isotopes which are more precise than previously published work.