carlsbad caverns entrance

Part of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, the cave was cut off from the rest of the world millions of years ago thanks to a thick layer of rock all around it. Only water could wend its way through the rock, and the path to the cave is so ridiculously tiny and circuitous that it takes ten thousand years to reach the cave itself. That means no new lifeforms had reached the cave until an entrance was first uncovered in 1984. That's why the discovery of antibiotic-resistant bacteria...


Postcard: Entrance to Carlsbad


Natural Entrance, Carlsbad


Caverns Entrance, Carlsbad


Carlsbad Caverns


Carlsbad Caverns entrance


2006 Carlsbad Caverns

Vintage real photo postcard of the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns.
Carlsbad Caverns Entrance Postcard

Walk into Carlsbad Cavern by way of the Natural Entrance, the same route visitors since the 1920s have descended, and you too may sense a cave-kindled fear like cowhand James Larkin White. He first neared and peered...
carlsbad caverns entrance