Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a limestone show cave with the fifth-largest chamber in North America. Located in southern New Mexico, its Big Room is 4,000 feet long (1200 m) and 255 feet tall (78 ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park will reduce its timed, self-guided tours starting Sunday, March 23, staff confirmed. A park representative said on the phone that the self-guided tour will no longer ...

Traverse 330 steps on the way to such distinctive chambers as the “Devil’s Kitchen” and the “Crystal Vault.” Wild caving ...

Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...

Lechuguilla Cave at Carlsbad Caverns is the deepest limestone cave in the country, and the fifth-longest known cave in the world. Read more about Oil and Gas Development Delayed Near Carlsbad Caverns ...

1883 - The first Anglo to see Carlsbad Cavern is unknown, but in 1883 a 12 year old boy was lowered into the cave by his father. 1898 - Jim White first entered the caverns. White was a cowboy who ...

At least 17 bat species call Carlsbad Caverns home, along with 55 different kinds of reptiles and 600 insects.