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You can see a variety of cave formations along the Big Room Trail. NPS
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Carlsbad Caverns shows how damaging a dropped bag of Cheetos can be

Heather Bergeson by Heather Bergeson September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

You might not think much about a discarded bag of chips, but Carlsbad Caverns National Park pled visitors to follow the cave’s “Leave No Trace” principles after they discovered litter off trail. The image they shared showed a discarded bag of Cheetos that had landed off trail in the Big Room, the largest single cave […]

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