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Inside Arizona’s Colossal Cave Mountain Park: Bats, outlaw lore and stone wonders beneath the desert

Explore Arizona’s Colossal Cave Mountain Park on a guided stroll past bat roosts, outlaw lore, and fossilized flowstone in a ...
AZ Animals

This Texas Cave Has Been Home to Bats for More Than 10,000 Years

Bracken Cave is home to the largest bat colony, consisting of 20 million bats. Discover why bat have lived there for more ...
Discover Wildlife

With a population of 15 million this is the biggest mammal gathering on Earth – and it happens in Texas...

Forget festivals and sporting events, the Bracken Cave bat colony is considered to be the largest gathering of mammals on ...
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They found the cave after six months - thousands of bats were inside

The cave took months to locate and was already unstable when entered. Inside, vertical drops, waterfalls, and loose rock made progress dangerous. As explorers climbed higher, a massive bat colony ...
SFGate

National park trail with lava tubes, bat-watching to close for nearly a year

A popular hiking trail in western New Mexico that features ancient lava flows and bat-filled caves will be closed through most of 2026 during a trail improvement project, the National Park Service ...
KSAT

Summer Adventure: Inside Texas' oldest private touring cave

See inside Cascade Caverns in Boerne. It became the first “private touring” cave in Texas back in the 1870s, and opened to the public in 1932. Now, it offers a cool spot to visit during the summer, ...