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In reply to the discussion: "Do you have a New Mexico passport?" [View all]Stuart G
(38,414 posts)An incredible beyond words place to see. This is a national park, so it has been displayed in an extraordinary way..
It is located in southeast New Mexico way off the beaten path. So who would go there? Southeast New Mexico?
Anyway, yes there is an elevator down to the bottom, so you don't have to walk to the bottom, and the formations inside are beyond words. There is one place in the cave where you can look up 250 feet and also look down 250 feet. You cannot see the top or the bottom of the look, but you can see that it goes on forever. (250 feet is the height of a 25 story building) At night fall, there is an auditorium in front of one of the entrances to the cave, and people sit there, and tens of thousands of bats fly out of the cave in order to get their nights food. Yes, tens of thousands. They just fly out. No the bats do not bite the people sitting there watching, but that is in itself an incredible sight. I would strongly recommend everyone going to see this incredible place, with incredible formations inside, a world famous cave..........................................
for some pictures of inside the cave..hit this link:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g143018-d3916574-Reviews-Carlsbad_Caverns_National_Park_Visitor_Center-Carlsbad_Caverns_National_Park_New_.html
.......but.........southeast New Mexico..who would want to got there?