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Apr 13, 2024 · Bandelier National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of ruggedly beautiful canyon and mesa country. Petroglyphs, dwellings carved into the soft rock cliffs, and standing masonry walls pay tribute to the early days of a culture that still survives in the surrounding communities. Read More.
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Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km 2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest .
- 33,677 acres (136.29 km²)
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- 210,941 (in 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 · Just a short drive away from both Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, Bandelier National Monument protects more than 33,000 acres of New Mexican wilderness in addition to preserving evidence of human presence that dates back 11,000 years.
Apr 2, 2024 · Upper Alamo Canyon. Photo by Lance Cleaver. Bandelier National Monument has over 70 miles of trail within its boundaries and many more miles that connect out into the adjacent Santa Fe National Forest Lands. The most popular of these trails are the Pueblo Loop Trail and Alcove House Trail.
Bandelier National Monument is an unexpected delight, containing some of the most unusual and interesting ancient ruins in the Southwest, petroglyphs and pictographs, steep narrow canyons with plentiful wildlife, mountains rising to 10,200 feet, many acres of unspoilt backcountry and a colorful section of the Rio Grande valley.
Established in 1916, it occupies an area of 53 square miles (137 square km) and was named for Adolph Bandelier, the Swiss American archaeologist who, beginning in 1880, studied the region extensively. The monument contains many ruins of cliff and open pueblos (villages) of pre-Columbian Indians, mostly from the 13th century.
