Visit private cave, see world's largest bat colony just 20 minutes from San Antonio

BRACKEN, Texas – The world's largest bat colony can be found just 20 minutes outside of San Antonio and there are select dates over the summer when...

March 17, 2023
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BRACKEN, Texas – The world's largest bat colony can be found just 20 minutes outside of San Antonio and there are select dates over the summer when you can visit. During the summer months, a tornado of roughly 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerges from Bracken Bat Cave . The population swells around June after female bats give birth to a single pup. 'This vortex, a swirling ‘batnado,' will start rising out of the sinkhole, and once they get up to the tree-top levels, they'll start streaming away from the cave.

Mary Claire Patton