Carlsbad Cavern Tours Self-guiding Trails: Big Room Route 1.25 miles (2km), 1 1 /2 hours easy to moderate Natural Entrance Route 1.25 miles (2km), 1 hour steep and strenuous Ranger-guided Tour: King’s Palace Tour 1 mile (1.6km), 1 1 /2 hours easy to moderate Ranger-guided tour only SCENIC ROOMS BIG ROOM M A I N C O R R I D O R Top of the Cross Seating area for cave talks View of Lower Cave PAPOOSE ROOM QUEEN’S CHAMBER KING’S PALACE 829 feet (253m) below surface GREEN LAKE ROOM Iceberg Rock Boneyard HALL OF GIANTS Temple of the Sun Caveman Junction Shortcut Totem Pole Mirror Lake Bottomless Pit Parking area Surface elevation 4406 feet 1343 meters Visitor Center Restrooms Trail Trail Trail Trail Handicap parking only Restrooms Bat Flight Amphitheater Natural Entrance BAT CAVE 200 feet (61m) below surface DEVIL’S DEN 500 feet (152m) below surface Devil’s Spring Elevator shaft Rest Area and Lunchroom Restrooms 755 feet (230m) below surface JIM WHITE TUNNEL Painted Grotto Crystal Spring Dome Rock of Ages Giant Dome Twin Domes Cave tour routes wind through the chambers of Carlsbad Cavern, shown in the illustration above. Public tours view only part of the cave. Beyond these passages are more underground rooms, many of them just as exquisitely decorated. Altogether over 30 miles of passages have been explored. The deepest chamber is 1,037 feet (316 meters) below the surface.

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Carlsbad Cavern Tours

Self-guiding Trails:Big Room Route1.25 miles (2km), 11⁄2 hourseasy to moderate

Natural Entrance Route1.25 miles (2km), 1 hoursteep and strenuous

Ranger-guided Tour:King’s Palace Tour1 mile (1.6km), 11⁄2 hourseasy to moderate

Ranger-guided tour onlySCENIC

ROOMS

B IG ROOM

MAIN CORRIDOR

Top of the CrossSeating area for cave talks

View of Lower Cave

PAPOOSEROOM

QUEEN’S CHAMBER

KING’S PALACE829 feet (253m) below surface

GREEN LAKE ROOMIcebergRock

Boneyard

HALL

GIANTS

Temple of the Sun

CavemanJunction

Shortcut

Totem Pole

Mirror Lake

Bottomless Pit

Parking area

Surface elevation4406 feet1343 meters

Visitor CenterRestrooms

TrailTrailTrailTrail

Handicap parking onlyRestrooms

Bat FlightAmphitheater

Natural Entrance

BAT CAVE200 feet (61m) below surface

DEVIL’S DEN500 feet (152m) below surface

Devil’s Spring

Elevatorshaft

Rest Area and LunchroomRestrooms 755 feet (230m) below surface

JIM WHITE TUNNEL

PaintedGrotto

Crystal Spring Dome

Rock of Ages

Giant DomeTwin Domes

Cave tour routes wind through the chambers of Carlsbad Cavern, shown in the illustration above. Public tours view only part of the cave. Beyond these passages are more underground rooms,

many of them just as exquisitely decorated. Altogether over 30 miles of passages have been explored. The deepest chamber is 1,037 feet (316 meters) below the surface.