Carlsbad Caverns is about 2 hours from El Paso, Texas, 3.5 hours from Las Cruces or White Sands National Park, and 4.5 hours ...

Things to do Carlsbad Caverns National Park . Lying beneath the arid Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico is a marvelously arrayed system of underground chambers - Carlsbad Caverns.Established on May ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park features 119 caves, which are unusual in that they were formed by sulfuric acid rather than carbonic acid. Most caves in the world are formed when water interacts ...

Summertime is the most popular time for family vacations, and units within the National Park System are popular destinations.

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.

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 ...

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.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park rangers pounced into action after a visitor left a bag of Cheetos that inhabitants of the caves found and spread, nearly destroying its ecosystem.

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.

FILE - Hundreds of cave formations are shown decorating the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns National Park near Carlsbad, N.M., Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) ...

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.

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.