Los Alamos Historical Museum
Search results
Nov 4, 2023 · The Tsankawi section of Bandelier National Monument is located on State Highway 4 twelve miles from the main section of the park. At Tsankawi you take a 1.5 mile walk along a mesa, viewing cavates, petroglyphs and the Ancestral Pueblo village of Tsankawi. Ladders are a required part of this trail. The trail is very exposed to the elements and ...
- Tsankawi Trail Intro
Intro: Tsankawi is the ancestral home of the modern pueblo...
- Falls Trail
Upper Falls . Photo by Sally King. Find out what the trail...
- Frijolito Loop Trail
Frijolito Loop Trail passes through the Piñon-Juniper...
- Alamo Boundary Trail
This trail is an excellent place to see montane wildflowers....
- Cerro Grande
Cerro Grande has beautiful views of the Valles Caldera and...
- U.S. National Park Service
The Tsankawi section of Bandelier National Monument is...
- Tsankawi Trail Intro
Tsankawi is a detached portion of Bandelier National Monument near White Rock, New Mexico. It is accessible from a roadside parking area, just north of the intersection of East Jemez Road and State Road 4. A self-guided 1.5-mile loop trail provides access to numerous unexcavated ruins, caves carved into soft tuff, and petroglyphs.
- White Rock
- .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}35°51′43″N 106°12′55″W / 35.86194°N 106.21528°W
- National Park Service
Tsankawi Trail. Tsankawi is a detached section of Bandelier National Monument, 11 miles by road north of the main entrance, bordered by the San Ildefonso Indian Reservation to the east and the city of Los Alamos to the west. Although small, the site receives a steady stream of visitors, partly as it lies just off busy highway 502, the main ...
About 60 miles northwest of Santa Fe, Tsankawi Pueblo thrived as a village before Columbus arrived in the New World. Archeologists and cultural historians believe the Ancestral Pueblo People abandoned Tsankawi in the late 1500s -- after nearly two centuries of occupation -- when a persistent drought devastated crops, and left the several ...
- (208)
- Attraction
Sep 1, 2020 · Virtual Tour of Tsankawi. Your Tsankawi journey begins by climbing the first of three ladders onto a flat stone platform. photo by Sally King. Travel at Tsankawi involves walking in incised trails. It is very important to stay on the trail and not to walk next to it. Walking outside the trail causes increased erosion and could lead to the ...
People also ask
How to get to Tsankawi?
Where is Tsankawi National Monument?
Where is the Tsankawi section of Bandelier National Monument?
What to do at Tsankawi?
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.
