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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center. The park entrance is located on US Highway 62 ...
The Caverns Historic District comprises the central developed area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The complex was built between the early 1920s and 1942, initially in Pueblo Revival style, and later in New Mexico Territorial Revival style in the area around the natural entrance to Carlsbad Caverns. The earlier structures are built of local ...
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages. [1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state ...
Carlsbad Caverns is 20 miles away from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and 145 miles away from El Paso, Texas. El Paso International Airport is the nearest major airport. A caver looks out across Carlsbad ...
Rattlesnake Springs Historic District. / 32.11000°N 104.46778°W / 32.11000; -104.46778. The Rattlesnake Springs Historic District is part of an isolated unit of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, surrounding a spring that creates an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert. The area was homesteaded and farmed in 1880 by William Henry Harrison.
White Sands, known for its sprawling, majestic dunes, drew almost 730,000 visitors last year. Carlsbad Caverns, which features stunning underground rock formations, attracts about 500,000 visitors ...
April 26, 1946. (1946-04-26) (aged 63) Carlsbad, New Mexico. Occupation. Cave promoter/explorer. James Larkin White (July 11, 1882– April 26, 1946) was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad ...
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