Handicap parking only
Restrooms
Natural Entrance
Visitor Center
Restrooms
Parking area
Bat Flight
Amphitheater
Trail
Surface elevation
4406 feet
1343 meters
BAT CAVE
200 feet (61m) below surface
Devil’s Spring
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Elevator
shaft
GREEN LAKE ROOM
Iceberg
Rock
KING’S PALACE
829 feet (253m) below surface
Ranger-guided tour only
QUEEN’S CHAMBER
Boneyard
Rest Area and Lunchroom
Restrooms
755 feet (230m) below surface
PAPOOSE
ROOM
JIM WHITE TUNNEL
HALL
OF
View of Lower Cave
GIANTS
Temple of the Sun
Rock of Ages
Caveman
Junction
Shortcut
Totem Pole
Top of the Cross
Seating area for cave talks
Carlsbad Cavern Tours
Self-guiding Trails:
Big Room Route
1.25 miles (2km), 11⁄2 hours
easy to moderate
Mirror Lake
Natural Entrance Route
1.25 miles (2km), 1 hour
steep and strenuous
Ranger-guided Tour:
Bottomless Pit
King’s Palace Tour
1 mile (1.6km), 11⁄2 hours
easy to moderate
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.
Painted
Grotto
Giant Dome
Twin Domes
Crystal Spring Dome
BIG ROOM
DEVIL’S DEN
500 feet (152m) below surface
