The Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, pictured on April 8, 2021, is the largest cave chamber in all of North America. Lights and a guided or audio-recording tour can guide the way through ...

Carlsbad Caverns is a maze of underground caves born from an ancient tropical reef. The caverns house North America's largest cave chamber, "the Big Room," which boasts a floor area of 8.2 acres — ...

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After a visitor dropped the snack in Carlsbad Caverns, the “foreign detritus” sparked mold and microbial growth that disturbed the delicate ecosystem, the park said. When a recent visitor to Carlsbad ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) –Guano. If you look into the history of Carlsbad Caverns, you will most likely come across this term. In fact, some of the early visitors to the large underground cave system ...

Robert Melnick, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, discusses the consequences of leaving a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The Cheetos slogan, dangerously cheesy, took ...

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home. The ...

A recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico got the munchies in one of the caves and left behind some incriminating evidence — a bag of Cheetos. While losing their snack might be ...

When delicate cave formations are damaged, Carlsbad Caverns National Park calls on the fix-it skills of Michael Mansur and his growing legion of volunteers. Nothing good happens fast in a cave. Those ...

A bag of Cheetos gets dropped and left on the floor. Seems inconsequential, right?Hardly.Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is home to 119 known caves, including North America's largest cave chamber, the Big Room. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

When a recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag of Cheetos inside one of the caves, losing a snack was probably an inconvenience. But to the tiny microorganisms who ...