1883 - The first Anglo to see Carlsbad Cavern is unknown, but in 1883 a 12 year old boy was lowered into the cave by his father. 1898 - Jim White first entered the caverns. White was a cowboy who ...

We lay 1,200 feet, more or less, beneath the desert, down countless rope pitches and miles of tortuous passage from the single entrance to Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a limestone show cave with the fifth-largest chamber in North America. Located in southern New Mexico, its Big Room is 4,000 feet long (1200 m) and 255 feet tall (78 ...