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| Guadalupe Mountain National Park |
For Memorial Day, I flew to El Paso, Texas with a couple of friends. We spent Friday night in El Paso and enjoyed a good Mexican food breakfast the next morning before stocking up the car with water and food and driving a couple of hours to Guadalupe Mountain National Park. Guadalupe Mountain National Park is very remote, yet beautiful. We spoke to a ranger and enjoyed a day-long hike. After our hike, we drove a couple of hours to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. (Note that the time zone changes between the parks, but both are actually in the same time zone.) After some confusion, we did make it to Carlsbad Caverns National Park before the evening bat program. On evenings (weather permitting), the bats fly out of the caves. It was a great experience and definitely a "don't miss" if you go to the park.
We spent the night about 30 minutes from the park in New Mexico. We enjoyed some local green chilis (in pasta) for dinner and spent the next day exploring the caves. We did a lantern tour - adults only. It was a great tour because you see parts of the caves you can't see without a guided tour. We did the main cave tour (on our own) and one of the more popular guided tours through the cave. We were quite cold after spending a significant chunk of the day in the cave and enjoyed hiking out of the cave. The hike was billed as strenuous, but we did it quickly without much difficulty. We enjoyed lunch then drove back to El Paso. We had a great dinner in the mountains while watching the sunset and flew back to NY the next morning. Great weekend.
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| Warning sign on the hike out of Carlsbad Caverns |
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