Carlsbad Caverns National Park
National park in Eddy County, New MexicoWikipedia
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Sep 27, 2026
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Robert Sr. and Jr. loved nothing more than hiking and traveling through the great outdoors.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
So, for Father's Day weekend in 2017, the pair decided to head to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The two planned to get a hotel and hike around the park, spending valuable time bonding together.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Unfortunately, this would be the last trip they would ever take and just weeks later, their family's lives would be turned upside down.
Brett MerrimanHOST
Here are the seven.
Brett MerrimanHOST
Big Bend, White Sands, Indiana Dunes, Hot Springs, Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns, and the Gateway Arch.
Brett MerrimanHOST
I've got trips lined up to Rocky Mountain National Park, Saguaro, saguaro saguaro and potentially the petrified forest before the year is up my favorite so far is big bend and the top of my must-see list is redwoods would love to hear everybody's favorite they visited in a top must see
Randy TrembackiPANELIST
shouts the dunes yeah people forget that indiana has beaches
Mike ImpreventoHOST
It makes great fertilizer, but it's toxic as hell.
Kerry DoughertyHOST
I was at the Carlsbad Caverns one time in New Mexico, and outside at sundown, it is hundreds of people gather, and the bats… fly out of that cave it is scary weird and beautiful all at once because
Mike ImpreventoHOST
yeah they're
Kerry DoughertyHOST
they make screechy noises and their wings are going like crazy and you just open they don't leave any droppings on you as they no they take off into the night
Steve StocktonHOST
Robert Sr. and Jr. loved nothing more than hiking and traveling through the great outdoors.
Steve StocktonHOST
So, over Father's Day weekend in 2017, the pair decided to head to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
Steve StocktonHOST
The two planned to get a hotel and hike around the park, spending valuable time bonding together.
Steve StocktonHOST
Unfortunately, this would be the last trip they would ever take, and just weeks later, their family's lives would be turned upside down.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Robert Sr. and Jr. loved nothing more than hiking and traveling through the great outdoors.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
So, over Father's Day weekend in 2017, the pair decided to head to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The two planned to get a hotel and hike around the park, spending valuable time bonding together.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Unfortunately, this would be the last trip they would ever take, and just weeks later, their family's lives would be turned upside down.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Thank you for reporting it, she said.
speaker_5NARRATOR
What was it? Park administration has approved a week of leave for you effective today.
speaker_5NARRATOR
She picked up her coffee cup.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The paperwork's already filed.
9 MINS LATER
speaker_5NARRATOR
I understood why she'd kept it contained.
speaker_5NARRATOR
I even understood the logic.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Park open, visitors unaware, no panic, perimeter holds.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Everyone goes home safe.
SarahHOST
They're down to two out of three right now, but Lord knows I don't remember which two it is, despite having written it.
SarahHOST
Sekou, Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located in what U.S. state?
Sekou BensonGUEST
Is that New Mexico?
SarahHOST
It is.
Don MastersonHOST
The inventor was Little Adams, a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania.
Don MastersonHOST
He had visited Carlsbad caverns and seen the mass emergence of bats.
Don MastersonHOST
Later, describing the origin of his idea, he connected that spectacle with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Don MastersonHOST
The United States had entered a war across an enormous ocean.
speaker_2NARRATOR
An experiment in which life found a way to persist in the absence of everything that life is supposed to require and proved that the sun is optional.
speaker_2NARRATOR
From Romania to the American Southwest, from a flat coastal plain to the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico, You are inside the boundaries of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
speaker_2NARRATOR
But you are not in the tourist area.
speaker_2NARRATOR
You are not on the paved trails of the big room.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
Such access has since been curtailed, and options for watching the bats return to the cave before dawn are more limited.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
Twenty years ago, I witnessed an early-morning reverse bat-nado at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
Unlike the swirling vortex of an evening emergence, when bats create an updraft to gain altitude, their pre-dawn return occurs in waves as bats fold their wings and dive hundreds of feet directly into the cave, reaching speeds of 50 miles an hour while in freefall.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
Even as public awareness of bats improves, hazards to various species continue to increase.
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