Cave
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad, New Mexico
One of the biggest accessible caves in America, with a bat flight at dusk.
- Price
- Per-person entry fee
- Booking
- Best to book
- Time to allow
- 3 hours
Walk or take an elevator into the Big Room, a vast limestone chamber. In summer, hundreds of thousands of bats spiral out of the entrance at dusk. Some routes need timed tickets.
Good to know
- Reserve timed tickets
- Evening bat flights run late spring to autumn
- Best time
- Morning, or dusk for bats
- Getting there
- Sealed park road, large car park
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- No dogs
Facilities
- Toilets
- Drinking water
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