Carlsbad, United States Travel Blogs

Down to the Bowels of Hell!
Feb 27, 2008 (20 photos)

... the campgrounds I've been in lately. During the final part of my drive, especially when I had to drive completely through Carlsbad, I was thinking of skipping the caverns and taking a breather from touring. After setting up at the campground I check my ...

Spelunking
Jun 8, 2007 (25 photos)

I woke up at 8AM and visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park.  On the drive in I saw a giant tarantula crossing the road.  When I arrived at the park I hiked a mile down into the cave to a depth of 750 feet below the surface.  It was great ...

The Neatest Cave in The World
Jul 18, 2009 (4 photos)

We went to Carlsbad Caverns.  It is a National Park in New Mexico.  We went down below ground.  It is 59 degrees all year round in the cave.  I was ahead of Mamaw and Papaw all the whole time.  I earned a Junior Ranger Badge.  ...

Days Seventy-Eight through Eighty-Three
Jan 17, 2005 (3 photos)

... to Carlsbad (about an hour north of San Diego) on Saturday, so I could attempt my first marathon on Sunday morning. The Carlsbad Marathon was a beautiful, mostly level tour of the Southern California coast. As for my performance, I will only say that I ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Mar 31, 2006 (8 photos)

Carlsbad Caverns was beautiful. I liked the dark, hushed atmosphere. We enjoyed the King's Palace tour and did both of the self-guided walking tours of the Natural Entrance and the Big Room. When the tour guide turned out the lights to let us experience ...

Days One Sixty and One Sixty-One
Apr 5, 2005

It must have been the Chinese take-out. We moved to Carlsbad State Park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific yesterday to save a few bucks (not many though, inland campsites are $25.00 per night - got to help Arnold balance the budget) and shortly after a ...

Finally Leaving Texas
Jun 4, 2009 (12 photos)

... ever had which we eat hastily in the dark. The following morning we make a short drive up to New Mexico to visit Carlsbad Caverns.  While the previous day we had been ascending up the Guadalupe Mountains, today we will be making our way down into ...

Grams n' Gramps
Apr 12, 2008 (2 photos)

Well I finally made it off the island.  I am officially "on vacation," or whatever you want to call it.  Staying with grandma and grandpa has been great.  I feel like I've never really gotten to spend any time with them 1 on 2, and this has ...

Guadalupe Mountains/Carlsbad Caverns
Apr 18, 2009 (24 photos)

... . We initially planned to spend several days in Lincoln National Forest, however, after walking the Natural Cave Entrance route of Carlsbad Caverns (amazing!), we were spent and decided on a motel stay in town instead.  Hot showers, a bed, and ...

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Sep 9, 2007

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'Carlsbad Caverns'
Apr 8, 2006 (5 photos)

... caverns in Carlsbad and it was even more impressive than we thought.(at first I thought Kelly said we were going to the 'Carlsbad Taverns' and I was pretty excited) But when I learned it was actually the Caverns and this was the place where they filmed ...

Carlsbad
Sep 12, 2008 (4 photos)

Carlsbad Nach kurzem Beraten in LA beschlossen wir die letzten Tage in den USA im warmen Sueden und am Meer zu verbringen! Also fuhren wir gemuetlich gegen Sueden, Endziel waere Pacific Beach, dass wir ja schon von unserem ersten Besuch in San Diego her ...

Day 8 & 9: Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Jul 10, 2008 (15 photos)

... to start this entry backwards because after two days of intermittent showers my brain has gone soggy. We set off for the Carlsbad Caverns from our campground after Matt got the lowdown from a fellow camper or two at breakfast - all guided tours of ...

Days One Fifty-Eight and One Fifty-Nine
Apr 3, 2005

... -out next door but if you are looking for a picturesque seaside vacation local with lots of good restaurant choices, Carlsbad is the place. I'm basing my assessment solely on the observation that the restaurants were always packed and the aromas wafting to ...

The Odyssey from Oxnard to Carlsbad Caverns
Mar 18, 2006 (3 photos)

... in Juarez, so that made it worthwhile. We left El Paso Monday afternoon, and took a sort of side trip into New Mexico to Carlsbad. Neither of us had been to the Carlsbad Caverns before, so we decide to make the detour off Hwy I-10. The next morning ...

White Sands and Christmas Lights
Dec 3, 2007

... the Pecos - a festive light display on the Pecos River, viewed only by boat.  It was fantastic.  The natives of Carlsbad really get into it.  The best part - the real meaning of Christmas got just as much airplay as the commercialism that ...

Carlsbad Caverns
Jun 8, 2007

Caverns were worth the 1000 mile drive!

Day Thirty-Three
Nov 28, 2004 (2 photos)

... across the parking plot. Instead, we continued north to stop for the night at a cheesy campground at the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. I'm too embarrassed to tell how much we paid for a small square of gravel and a shower too dilapidated and ...

Great relaxing night in Carlsbad ..by Geet
Jan 9, 2008 (14 photos)

... to Karan's cousin as the studio was about to close. We all sat back in the car filled up the gas a started going towards Carlsbad which was around 2 hours away from universal. Kunal drove us till her house. As soon as we went there we were welcomed by the ...

Not so Bad Carl
Mar 10, 2008 (66 photos)

... would walk through an ampitheater to get into a cavern? Well the answer is there is something very special that happens in Carlsbad in the summer...Bats.  Every night just before dawn thousand upon thousand of them come swarming out to feed on the ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Feb 11, 2009 (16 photos)

... I need to actually take a photography class because almost all my cavern pictures came out rotten!  I'm so torked because Carlsbad Caverns is Awesome!  I've been to many other caves in California, Oregon, and Arizona, but Carlsbad beats them all ...

Calrsbad
Mar 16, 2009 (42 photos)

In Santa Barbara war ich mal wieder aufer Suche nach nem Zeltplatz, als ich hinter all den Villen ein nettes Plaetzchen fand um mein Zelt aufzustellen. Gesagt getan, man fragt, betreibt ein bisschen Small talk, und steht schon im eigenen Schlafzimmer mit ...

Heaven and Earth in New Mexico
May 19, 2003 (9 photos)

... For those of you who did not know, the Gadsden Purchase gave the southernmost 30 miles of New Mexico and Arizona to the United States in 1859, allowing a southern railway route to be established. We stayed at the Happy Trails B&B (Kirsten's out-of-the ...

Driving down to San Diego
Nov 27, 2006 (2 photos)

From our travels Cambodia and America are the only two countries that have something in common. Power cuts. Yes we woke today to a powercut and apparently these happen all the time in California just like Phomn Penn!! and here we were thinking we were ...

Don't Mess with Texas!
Jun 2, 2009 (6 photos)

... Christen got upset, ok Bri says she threw a tantrum, but Christen says she just got a little sad about missing it. Arrived in Carlsbad, NM, Mountain Time: 9:30 Hotel Report: Super 8 - comforter is off - bathroom is "clean" - sheets are "clean" - TV has ...

Carlsbad caverns
May 9, 2005

... store and bought boots and a more serious sleeping bag.. Then I had a really wonderful ride up state route 54 from Van Horn to Carlsbad.. There was a sign when I left I 10 that the next gas station was 62 miles... I drove 52 miles before I saw a car ...

Day 42
Jun 13, 2009 (26 photos)

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Here Kitty Kitty
Jan 24, 2006 (4 photos)

... was a glorious hike (see photos) with temps in the 40's and very little wind which is unusual. Afterwards, we headed to Carlsbad Caverns which for some reason we had set fairly low expectations. I think we both believed once you have seen a cave, they ...

South New Mexico
Oct 5, 2006

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Chillin' with the bats
Feb 27, 2009

... by the fact that these people were indeed volunteering and NOT getting paid for such a tedious task. I would recommend seeing the Carlsbad Caverns at least once in your life, they are truly spectacular and really indescribable, something that seems not of ...