Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Good to know
- Best time to go
- April to October, evenings in summer for bat flight
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- wheelchair-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A national park in the Chihuahuan Desert of southeastern New Mexico preserving a network of more than 119 known caves, including the Big Room, one of the largest cave chambers in North America at 4,000 feet long. The self-guided Big Room trail circles the chamber past formations including the Rock of Ages stalagmite. A 7-mile natural entrance trail spirals down 750 feet through the cave mouth. From late spring through fall, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats emerge from the cave entrance at dusk in a spectacular flight.
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