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Elevator house, c. 1933–42; photo by Ansel Adams A ladder used by the first explorers in the Carlsbad Caverns. In 1898, a teenager named Jim White explored the cavern with a homemade wire ladder. He named many of the rooms, including the Big Room, New Mexico Room, Kings Palace, Queens Chamber, Papoose Room, and Green Lake Room.
The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns National Park is the largest single cave chamber by volume in North America. It is accessible via a relatively flat 1.25 mile (2 km) trail.
The Big Room is the largest single cave chamber by volume in North America, but Carlsbad Cavern is not the biggest cave. Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the longest known cave system in the whole world.
Lechuguilla Cave surpasses nearby Carlsbad Caverns in size, depth, and variety of speleothems, though no room has been discovered yet in Lechuguilla Cave that is larger than Carlsbad's Big Room. [4] For the first time, a Guadalupe Mountains cave extends deep enough that scientists may study five separate geologic formations from the inside.
James Larkin White (July 11, 1882– April 26, 1946) was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service.He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.
The Caverns Historic District comprises the central developed area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The complex was built between the early 1920s and 1942, initially in Pueblo Revival style , and later in New Mexico Territorial Revival style in the area around the natural entrance to Carlsbad Caverns.