Let's Check Out Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave near Grants New Mexico
Check out this decades old tourist attraction just off Route 66!
WEBISODE | The Bandera Ice Caves & Volcano | New Mexico PBS
- Ten thousand years ago, near Grants, New Mexico, the Bandera Volcano erupted spewing lava over its sides creating miles of lava tubes. As these tubes cooled, some collapsed, and a natural giant ice cave was formed inside. Throughout the centuries this ice cave has been used as a natural refrigeration system as the temperature never rises above 31 degrees. Now privately owned by the Candelaria family and managed by their son-in-law Jeff Alford, the general public can come and enjoy year-round a beautiful walk into the geologic past and cool off on a hot summer day in this magnificent Ice Cave.
Ice Caves and Bandera Volcano
These geological wonders are on the edge of El Malpais National Monument. The volcano crater offers some stunning views, and the ice cave is a remarkable example of the mysteries nature can serve up.
Bandera Volcano & Ice Caves - New Mexico, USA
We saw our first Volcano in the state of New Mexico! We also saw an amazing ice cave that formed in an old lava tube.
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Bandera Crater & Ice Cave
Bandera Crater & Ice Caves is found just down New Mexico Hwy 53, east of El Morro National Monument, just south of Grant. Eleven dollars allows you to hike up an ancient volcanic cinder cone and look down into Bandera Crater. While you're there explore lava tubes and the ice cave, where the temperature never rises above 31 degrees F. It's remarkable how good it feels to go down in the cave on a hot sunny day :-)
Bandera Ice Cave in New Mexico
More photos and my write-up about this place:
Bandera Ice Caves, New Mexico, Summer '98- Dead Volcanoes
ALL ORIGINAL CONTENT : Lava tubes formed around the caves insulate the ice at a below freezing temp year round.!! Music courtesy of audionautix.com
Ice Cave at 'Ice Cave and Bandera Crater' in New Mexico.
Here's a brief clip of a ice cave located at 'Ice Cave and Bandera Crater.' South of Grants, New Mexico on highway 53.
Ice Cave Grants New Mexico
A little shaky, but this is what you can expect when going there!
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Chelsea and I hiking the Bandera Crater and checking out the ice cave nearby
Enchanted New Mexico | Volcano, Ice Cave & Tent Rocks | RV Life
Explore the enchanted land left behind from ancient volcanos in Enchanted New Mexico. We take day hikes to an extinct volcano that has forever changed the landscape with endless lava flow, lave tubes, ice cave and twisted wood. We explore the Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks, near Santa Fe, resembling giant tee-pee's carved out of the mountainside from rich, volcanic activity in the area. New Mexico is home to many extinct volcanoes that literally turned this land into fire and ice.
Tour the Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave to experience the fiery flow from the now extinct volcano and ice cave created from a 17 mile lava tube.
Tour the Kasha Katuwe Tent Rock National Monument to experience the aftermath of volcanic eruption and ash that created huge formations resembling tee-pee's or tents. Walk along a beautiful and narrow box canyon on the Kasha Katuwe trail and climb 600 feet to experience some of the most magnificent views of the valley overlooking Kasha Katuwe.
These hiking locations are in or near the Santa Fe area and can be done as day hikes. New Mexico is ripe with several extinct volcanos, lava gardens, lava tubes, sinkholes, tent rocks and other beautiful formations.
Kasha Katuwe National Monument, Cochiti, New Mexico
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Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano Gem Search
Elias and Mary searched for gems and arrow heads in a mining stream at the Ice Cave in New Mexico! He found a bunch of stuff!
An 'UNKNOWN SUPERVOLCANO' in Middle of USA - Valles Caldera of New Mexico!
'UNKNOWN SUPERVOLCANO' in Middle of USA - Valles Caldera of
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New Mexico Gypsum Cave Life
Examples of cave life including dragonfly larvae found in a gypsum cave in Eddy County, New Mexico, 25 November 2014. Video taken with iPhone 5s using headlight illumination.
ice caves in new mexico
this ice cave is at 32 degrees yearround
Sandiaman Cave New Mexico
Hiking up to the Sandiaman Cave in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico with my brother James in July 2009.
Who were the first Americans?
During 1940 new light was thrown on this intriguing question by Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. He found evidence of Americans apparently even older than the famous Folsom Man who probably hunted in the southwestern United States during the later stages of the Ice Age, some 25,000 years ago. The new discoveries consist of distinctive weapons found in a cave in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. Sandia Man, himself, like Folsom Man, is missing. And it is unlikly that there is any link between him and Native Americans or or early Mexicans that later inhabited the area.
The tools and camp-ground debris, however, were clues from which can be built a picture of the Americans and American life late in the Ice Age. Perhaps as far back as 27,000 years ago
Sandia Man hunted elephants and saber-tooth tigers in the Sandia Mountain area. Archaeologists have suggested that Sandia Man sought shelter in Sandia Cave in the Sandia mountains following archaeological research in the region.
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Albuquerque Journal article on the cave:
Grants, NM ice caves and vulcano
Never knew this was next door. quick 3 hour ride round trip.
Inside a cave in southeastern New Mexico
Inside a cave in southeastern New Mexico