{"id":78,"date":"2009-10-25T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:03:17","slug":"carlsbad-caverns-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/78\/carlsbad-caverns-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Caverns National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/carlsbad-caverns\/temple-sun-carlsbad-l.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/carlsbad-caverns\/temple-sun-carlsbad-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Temple of the Sun, Big Room Route, Carlsbad Caverns, NPS Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"305\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\"> Carlsbad Caverns, Temple of the Sun, NPS Photo<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Carlsbad Caverns National Park<\/strong> is a series of connected caverns with countless formations that decorate huge chambers including the easily accessible Big Room covering eight acres with a 250 foot high ceiling. The park contains at least 113 separate caves, including the nation&#8217;s deepest limestone cave, over 1,600 feet, and fourth longest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlsbad Caverns<\/strong> was proclaimed Carlsbad Cave National Monument on October 25, 1923 and became Carlsbad Caverns National Park on May 14, 1930. Carlsbad Caverns was also designated a World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Acreage-46,766 Federal: 46,427 Nonfederal: 339 Wilderness area: 33,125<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n[ad#mr-nw]<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-links1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/\" >Carlsbad Caverns National Park<\/a> &#8211; NPS.gov Official Site<\/div>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/images\/references\/npindex-09-11.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"References\" width=\"497\" height=\"46\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-right\">[ad#ur-ss]<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"clear:both\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-left-single\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad Caverns, Temple of the Sun, NPS Photo Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a series of connected caverns with countless formations that decorate huge chambers including the easily accessible Big Room covering eight acres with a 250 foot high ceiling. The park contains at least 113 separate caves, including the nation&#8217;s deepest limestone cave, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,26,12,27,266,28],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-parks","tag-carlsbad-caverns","tag-cave","tag-national-park","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico-national-parks","tag-world-heritage-site"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nationalparkguides.com\/parks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}