Exciting news, there will be Bracken visitation nights five days a week in 2012 and you’ll have the opportunity to bring additional guests. Along with this change, we have some adjustments to our membership visitation benefits.
Membership levels below $60 will need to pay for admission.
Membership levels $60-$239 will receive two free tickets and will have the opportunity to purchase additional tickets.
Membership levels of $240 and above will receive admission for four with the opportunity to purchase guest tickets.
Bracken Bat Cave is the summer home of the world's largest bat colony. With millions of Mexican free-tailed bats living in the cave from March thru October, Bracken holds one of the largest concentration of mammals on earth.
The emergence of these millions of bats, as they spiral out of the cave at dusk for their nightly insect hunt, is an unforgettable sight.
The cave and 697 acres of the surrounding Texas Hill Country is owned and protected by Bat Conservation International. The cave is on the suburban fringe of San Antonio, in an area of rapid population growth. If not for the generous donations of BCI's members and friends, the cave and its remarkable bats likely would have been engulfed by subdivisions.
In addition to conserving the cave bats, BCI stewards the entire property, protecting endangered birds and rehabilitating the land by removing invasive vegetation and reviving native plants.
