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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

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Decorations of great beauty and variety adorn a complex subterranean array that includes some of the world's largest underground chambers, formed when sulfuric acid dissolved the surrounding limestone.

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Yuccas at sunset on limestone bedrock. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Desert ridges. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Rattlesnake Canyon. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

A narrow canyon of orange rock rises above a tranquil stream lined with wildflowers. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Twisted tree branches and bright foliage ripple as reflections on the surface of Rattlesnake Springs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Clumps of purple flowers spill down the gravel slope toward a shrinking desert waterhole. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Wildflowers, prickly pear cactus, and rock wall. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Close-up of flowers and dead cactus. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Deer in desert landscape. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Sun through wildfire smoke and burned shrubs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stary sky at night, Slaughter Canyon. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Tourists walking down natural entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor looking at natural entrance from below. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Illuminated formations and winding path threading through a towering chamber of rock. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Vistor and stalacmites. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Devils Spring underground pool. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Papoose Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Massive stalagmites and delicate stalagtites, Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Six-story tall colum and stalagmites in Hall of Giants. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalagtite chandelier and stubby stalagmites. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Massive speleotherms. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Monumental stalagmites and stalactites, Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Painted Grotto. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Alcove with delicate speleotherms. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalagmite and stalagtites draperies. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalactites in Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Massive stalagmites and chandelier, Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalagmite and flowstone framing chandelier. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Large stalagmite column and thin stalagtites. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Giant Dome and Twin Domes. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Dense array of stalactites and stalagmites glowing under warm artificial light in the Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Dense forest of stalactites and stalagmites filling an immense underground chamber, Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Big limestone pillars. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Huge rocks from collapsed ceiling, Natural Entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Fine stalactite draperies, Kings Palace. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Lower Cave seen from jumping off place. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Delicate stalagtites with iron oxide staining in Painted Grotto. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Fine Stalactites growing from ceiling of Papoose Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalacmites in Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Chinese Theater. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stalagmite and cave popcorn. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Cloud and blue skies above burned desert. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Rocky slope with burned cactus. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Evening shadows sweep across the scrub-covered limestone hills of the Chihuahuan Desert. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Field of spiky yucca crowns and rugged cliffs, Slaughter Canyon. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Walnut Canyon and road from above. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Flowers and cactus in Walnut Canyon. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Yucca and cliff. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Close-up of annuals and cactus. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

ocotillos on slope. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Yuccas, sky darkened by wildfires. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Burned desert. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Burned yuccas and trees. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Wildflowers and cactus. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Close-up of flowers and burned desert plants. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Burned desert vegetation. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Desert shrubs and trees, Walnut Canyon. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Weathered limestone overhangs form a shallow rock shelter above scattered shrubs and boulders. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Yellow wildflowers frame a still, green pool reflecting sunlit canyon walls. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Rattlesnake Springs pond reflecting a historic adobe pumphouse and control structure. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Low adobe service buildings beside the clear Rattlesnake Springs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Curved concrete pumphouse rising from a green Rattlesnake Springs pool beneath cottonwoods. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Channel carrying spring water past grasses and wildflowers through the historic farmstead of Rattlesnake Springs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Meadow of yellow wildflowers spreading toward dense cottonwood and mesquite, Rattlesnake Springs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Stary sky at night above Guadalupe Mountains. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Windshield view, Slaughter Canyon road. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Carlsbad Caverns Highway and limestone cliffs. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Carlsbad Caverns Highway curving toward cliffs layered with pale limestone. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor Center. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Ocotillos, yuccas and cactus, visitor center window reflexion. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Desert shrubs, visitor center window reflexion. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Shrub and cave pictures, visitor center window reflexion. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Interpretive signs, burned landscape. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Nature Shelter interpretive sign. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Tilted limestone and sandstone layers interpretive sign. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Bat Flight Amphitheater. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor Looking, paved switchbacks into the natural entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Cave natural entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Natural entrance from below. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Looking up cave natural entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Walkway inside cave and natural entrance. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Interpretive sign, Iceberg Rock. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Souvenir shop, Underground rest area. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Path passing next to huge stalagmite. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Narrow paved trail winding through a corridor of dripping limestone formations, Big Room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor Looking, natural entrance route. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor Looking, massive columns and draperies of stone on natural entrance route. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Park visitor looking, cave room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Visitor in large room. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

Big Room with a lone visitor at right facing the forest of formations. Carlsbad Caverns National Park ( color)

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