Check out this list compiled from Batcon.org of more bat viewing locations in the United States
Alabama
Sauta Cave Bats in northeastern Alabama is home to between 300,000 to 400,000 endangered gray bats that can be viewed between late spring to early fall with numbers peaking midsummer.
California
Colorado
Orient Mine Bats A ghost-town mine has become a vibrant migratory roost for a quarter-million Brazilian free-tailed/Mexican free-tailed bats. Orient mine is near Alamosa and Sand Dunes National Park
Florida
University of Florida Bat Houses in Gainesville houses more than 400,000 bats on campus in the world’s largest occupied bat structures – two bat barns and a large bat house.
Indiana
Wyandotte Cave Bats in southern Indiana is home to the federally endangered Indiana bat, as well as Little Brown Bats, Big Brown Bats and the Eastern Pipistrelle Bat.
Pennsylvania
Hartman's Cave Bats on Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge is a now closed bat cave where a healthy bat population was devastated from white nose syndrome.
Michigan
Adventure Mine Bats in Greenland provides several options for touring a historic copper mine. Those who sign up for tours must be able to walk and rappel. The bats in this mine include Little and Big Brown Bats, Northern Long Eared Bats and Tricolor Bats, but their populations have been severely reduced by white nose syndrome.
Millie Hill Mine Bats on Iron Mountain is considered one of several significant bat hibernation sites in the Midwest to view migrating Little and Big Brown Bats.
New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns National Park Bats Take a self-guided tour through the
Big Room of the cave system 750 feet below the surface to see cave formations of all shapes and sizes. Then settle into the outdoor amphitheater from Memorial Day through October for a free National Parks Service Presentation about the bats of Carlsbad: Mexican free-tailed, cave myotis, and fringed myotis.
Tennessee
Nickajack Cave Bats near Chattanooga, a partially flooded limestone cave in the Tennessee River Gorge that can be viewed via kayak, is home to an estimated 100,000 bats, including two endangered bat species: the Indiana Bat and the Gray Bat.
Texas
Bracken Cave Preserve Bats near San Antonio is home to the world’s largest known maternity colony of bats—an estimated 15 to 20 million Mexican free-tails.
Clarity Tunnel Bats in Caprock Canyon State Park:
Clarity Tunnel provides visitors with opportunities to walk through an abandoned historic railroad tunnel during the day, and to later observe up to the 500,000 Mexican free-tailed bats as they emerge at dusk.
Congress Avenue Bridge Bats in Austin hosts the largest urban colony of bats in North America. Bring a blanket to sit on and claim a grassy spot to watch!
Devil's Sinkhole Bats near Rockspring has an estimated three million Mexican free-tail bats emerging from Devil's Sinkhole each evening May through October. At night, while the bats are away, three to four thousand cave swallows rest in the cavern at night
Eckert James River Bat Cave: An hour’s drive northwest of Fredericksburg, the Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve is the summer roosting place for four to six million Mexican free-tail bats. Eckert James River is within an hour of another bat site, Old Tunnel.
Frio Cave Bats in Concan, Uvalde County: Frio Cave is the seasonal migratory roost for 10 million Mexican free-tail bats, the second largest bat colony in the world.
Old Tunnel Bats in Fredricksburg has a historic railroad tunnel of only 920 feet where three million bats roost during warm summer days, and emerge in the evening to the delight of bat viewers.
Stuart Bat Cave located in Kickapoo Cavern State Park near Brackettville, shelters approximately one million Mexican free-tail bats mid-March through mid-October. Camping, hiking and mountain bike trails are also located here. The site is about an hours drive from Devil's Sinkhole, another bat viewing location.
Waugh Drive Bridge over Buffalo Bayou in Houston offers a striking juxtaposition when as many as 250,000 Mexican free-tail bats emerge each evening between March to October.
