subject: Guided Tours at Carlsbad Caverns [print this page] Carlsbad Caverns National Park is home to some of the most amazing caves in the whole of the United States. These caverns are beautiful and stunning in places, and interesting and creepy in others. The caves are home to over 400,000 Brazilian bats, and they make for some of the most interesting features of the park in the evening. As a visitor to the park, you can see a lot of its most interesting features on guided tours through some of the back caverns or lower caverns.
The hour-and-a-half King's Palace tour can take visitors to one of the largest rooms in the cavern. The King's Palace is truly majestic, and this tour is a somewhat challenging one because it has guests going uphill for eight stories over the period of a mile or so. There are four chambers in the Palace, and they end up about 800 feet below ground level. In the Palace there are all sorts of unique and interesting formations that you can't find anywhere else in the caves. The most interesting and astonishing thing, though, is just the sheer size of this spectacular cavern.
The Left Hand Tunnel Tour is best for guests who want to really explore some of the intricacies of Carlsbad Caverns. This tour is one of the more physically challenging on the list of guided tours, though, so you need to make sure that you're in good enough shape to head out on this tour. This tour goes into unlit territory, so the Caverns staff will send you with a lantern so that you can see what's going on in the Left Hand Tunnel. This particular tunnel is home to some of the most delicate formations in the Caverns, and it's well-known for its intricate beauty.
The Left Hand Tunnel Tour will open up many of the pools in the caves for the view of visitors, as well as some interesting fossils. Some of the fossils in the cave date all the way back to the Permian age. If this is something you're interested in, the park rangers are full of knowledge that will help you understand what you're seeing. It's very important that you're careful on this two hour tour because you'll be coming into contact with some of the most fragile aspects of all of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Guided Tours at Carlsbad Caverns
By: Becky Kelley
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