We always keep an eye on the weather as we’re traveling and noticed that one of our travel days was going to have some strong winds with gusts of up to 50 miles an hour. Since we were going to be traveling through an area that often has strong cross winds and dust storms we decided to rethink our travel plans.

We generally plan short travel days and when we looked at our trip on RV Trip Wizard we realized we could combine 2 days travel into 1 and stay an extra night at Roswell. Fortunately, Trailer Village had the night available due to a cancellation.

With an extra day in Roswell we decided to drive to Carlsbad Caverns which was about 90 miles away. WOW – so glad we did!! It made us happy we had to rearrange our travels.

The main viewing area of the Caverns is called The Big Room and there are 2 ways to get there. You can take an elevator, or you can walk down through the Natural Entrance Trail. This trail is listed as being strenuous and extremely steep (downhill). We decided to give it a try and again are so glad we did! I wouldn’t call it strenuous, but it was dark and somewhat steep in areas. What an incredible way to enter the cave. The pictures will never do this justice, but we tried!!

The Natural Entrance Trail

The Big Room