Bandelier National Monument
New Mexico

Bandelier National Monument is probably best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them.

Adolph Bandelier

The 32,737 acre national monument also includes over 23,000 acres of designated Wilderness.  The best-known archeological sites, in Frijoles Canyon near the Visitor Center, were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid-1500s.  Earlier groups had used the area for thousands of years.  Many people want to know how the park got it's name.  It was named for Adolph Bandelier, a 19th-century anthropologist.  Bandelier National Monument was proclaimed on February 11, 1916.

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