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 ...

Deep beneath the Chihuahuan Desert in southern New Mexico is a labyrinth of more than 300 limestone caves, carved over 250 million years ago ... before the bats migrate south for the winter.

Carlsbad Caverns is a maze of underground caves born from an ancient tropical reef. The caverns house North America's largest cave chamber, "the Big Room," which boasts a floor area of 8.2 acres ...

Carlsbad Caverns is home to some of the most spectacular examples of underground geologic features found anywhere in the United States. Located in southeastern New Mexico, the park contains more than ...

Adrian HeddenEl Rito [email protected] At least 17 bat species call Carlsbad Caverns home, along with 55 different kinds of reptiles and 600 insects. The massive… ...

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 ...

We lay 1,200 feet, more or less, beneath the desert, down countless rope pitches and miles of tortuous passage from the single entrance to Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns ...

In fact, the big room in Carlsbad Caverns is one of the largest underground ... Rather than the way most caves form, which is from the top down with carbonic acid. This cave formed from the ...