Carlsbad Caverns - Visitor Center and Entrance | Tourist Attraction

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This is the carlsbad caverns visitor center and the location where you enter the cave.
$10usd fee to enter
you can take an elevator down to the main cave, or you can do a hike through the natural entrance. the hike in and out takes you 750ft. up/down in about a mile, but it's a comfortable hike in the cool cave temperature.
beautiful caves, very developed with lights and trails, but amazing none the less!

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Reservations Required to Enter Cave! Go to Recreation.Gov and search for Carlsbad Caverns. Just make sure and book the day before. Went on a Monday very quiet in the Caves 🪇

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$15 for the self guided tour. $8 additional for a ranger guided tour. We are relatively fit mid 30s and found the whole tour quite long, physically. We even opted for a shortcut and sped walk, took us 2.5 hours. Keep that in mind if visiting. The natural entrance is pretty to look at, which you can do before you take an elevator down, and take it back up!😉

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Caves are amazing. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hiked down the cave and then took the elevator back up. Used my National Park Pass.

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Wonderfull place!

Please consider donating 10$ to sponsor a bat and help save them ❤

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É realmente incrível essa caverna, não termina nunca, caminhamos por 2h30min para recorrer tudo. Deixamos nosso cachorro no canil, bem confortável por $10,00 dólares e a entrada compramos o passe anual, da direito a entrar em muitos parques nacional e vale muito a pena, pagamos $80,00 dólares e com o cartão entram até 4 pessoas.

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Absolutely stunning and a "Must See" if you are in the area. As it is self guided you can stay as long as you want in the cave - there are several spots where you can sit and enjoy this wonderland. Very recommended. By the way if you buy the annual NP pass for 80$ (valid for a whole family) you have free entrance to all the NP in the US fir a year - a very good deal.

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Beautiful caves up to 750' underground. Kennel available for dogs, $10/day, need rabies records. Natural entrance is steep and paved with asphalt, if you are mildly disabled (tricky knee or hip) it might still be doable. Elevator available to go either direction. Bats are gone in winter, during the summer there's a bat amphitheater where you can watch them fly out of the cave. the natural entrance smells like poop due to the sparrows and bats flying in and out. Don't touch anything and bring hand sanitizer along with sensible shoes for the natural entrance.

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Amazing, massive caverns. Costs $12 now or free with America the Beautiful pass (which is great value at $80 if you're visiting several national parks). We walked down which took an hour, then around the big cave which took another hour+. Fantastic. Took the elevator back up. If you go in the early afternoon it's quieter and the queues for the elevator back up are shorter.

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this is the carlsbad caverns visitor center and the location where you enter the cave.
$10usd fee to enter
you can take an elevator down to the main cave, or you can do a hike through the natural entrance. the hike in and out takes you 750ft. up/down in about a mile, but it's a comfortable hike in the cool cave temperature.
beautiful caves, very developed with lights and trails, but amazing none the less!

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