The Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, pictured on April 8, 2021, is the largest cave chamber in all of North America. Lights and a guided or audio-recording tour can guide the way through ...

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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 in southeastern New Mexico is home to 119 known caves, including North America's largest cave chamber, the Big Room. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) — The Carlsbad Caverns are a New Mexico gem located in the Guadalupe Mountains. It’s one of over 300 limestone caves, with a fossil reef stemming from approximately 265 million ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is known for its caves, but there’s a lot more to the national park, which celebrates its centennial this year. “The combination of the desert ecosystem, being so kind ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) –Guano. If you look into the history of Carlsbad Caverns, you will most likely come across this term. In fact, some of the early visitors to the large underground cave system ...

When delicate cave formations are damaged, Carlsbad Caverns National Park calls on the fix-it skills of Michael Mansur and his growing legion of volunteers. Nothing good happens fast in a cave. Those ...

When a recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag of Cheetos inside one of the caves, losing a snack was probably an inconvenience. But to the tiny microorganisms who ...

A recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico got the munchies in one of the caves and left behind some incriminating evidence — a bag of Cheetos. While losing their snack might be ...

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home. The ...

Robert Melnick, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, discusses the consequences of leaving a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The Cheetos slogan, dangerously cheesy, took ...