Bandelier National Monument

Trip ideas while visiting Santa Fe in New Mexico

Bandelier National Monument

In the past, Ancestral Puebloan communities lived in permanent settlements throughout the Southwest even before Europeans arrived in North America. Bandelier National Monument offers a chance to discover the remains of one such settlement. Situated at the bottom of Frijoles Canyon, you can find a group of ancient cave dwellings and stone structures that belonged to the ancestors of the present-day Pueblo peoples.