Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Check timed-entry arrangements, admission and accessibility before your underground visit. Tours and bat programs have separate details.
Visitor details ↗Southeast / Find your place
Carlsbad
Cavern chambers · Pecos River · Desert wildlife
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A place worth knowing
Make room for Carlsbad.
Let a cavern visit anchor one day and keep river-side or wildlife time for another. Carlsbad is a useful base, but the national park and other outings require their own travel and entry plans.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Explore Chihuahuan Desert plants and wildlife through the state park’s current visitor information.
Visitor details ↗Pecos River town time
Use the destination guide for a river-side park stop, town attractions and local dining.
Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
Choose a local food stop around Carlsbad using the visitor dining directory. Confirm menus, opening days and reservations with the business.
Explore local dining ↗Stay awhile.
Choose a base for your days around Carlsbad. Compare dates, location and the operator’s booking terms.
Explore Carlsbad places to stay ↗A little farther along.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Carlsbad. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real New Mexico photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Big Room, Carlsbad Cavern (51202438416).jpg — CarlsbadCavernsNPS. Big Room, Carlsbad Cavern Public domain. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- A colorful, though otherworldly, couple in Roswell, a small city in the southeast corner of New Mexico that lacked much of a national identity until one day in 1947 when, believers say, an unidentified flying object, or UFO, landed in the nearby desert — Carol M. Highsmith. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, New Mexico FIPS35. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.