Carlsbad Travel Guide

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Carlsbad Overview

Carlsbad is a town of about 25,000 population located in New Mexico. Predominately originating as a mining town, today over 11K area residents are employed by WIPP and many of the others still work at the Potash mines. However, the area is slowly growing as a low-cost family vacation destination due to improvements in the Pecos river water/beach sites and addition of the Living Desert Zoo & Gardens.

Located about 18 miles away to the south in White's City is the famous Carlsbad Caverns that attract visitors from all over the world.

Carlsbad is centered at tread morehe intersection of U.S. Routes 62/180 and 285, and is the principal city of the Carlsbad-Artesia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which has a total population of 55,435. It is a hub for potash mining, petroleum production, and tourism. Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located 18 miles (29 km) southwest of the city and Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies 40 miles southwest across the Texas border. Carlsbad has approximately 1,400 acres of park space within city limits often utilized for special events and sporting activities.

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Slaughter Canyon Cave (New Cave) near Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico
Jun 14, 1993 – Jun 12, 1998
What is "Spelunking"?  The real difference between caving and spelunking is caving is like Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico&he…
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Carlsbad Caverns
Feb 15, 2008 – Feb 17, 2008
I was sooo excited to take the 4 hour caving tour on Saturday where you get to crawl around the cave off the trails.  And …
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Feb 11, 2011 – Jun 29, 2011
Wow!!!! what a gorgeous day we had today.  Out of bed around 7:00am, had nice breakfast of bacon, eggs, grits, toast &…
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave, Carlsbad Cavern. Ca…
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