Bandelier National Monument
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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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Bandelier National Monument:
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Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size
acres (hectares)
Description
Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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Bandelier National Monument
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Phone:505-672-0343
Fax:505-672-9607
Web: www.nps.gov/band/
Size: 33,677 acres.
Established: Proclaimed on February 11, 1916; transferred from Forest Service on February 25, 1932. Wilderness designated on October 20, 1976.
Location:48 miles (by road) northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From Santa Fe, travel north on 285/84 to Pojoaque, then west on NM 502 and south on NM 4. From Albuquerque take I-25 north to NM 44 to NM 4.
Facilities:Campgrounds (é), picnic area, rest rooms (é), visitor center (é), gift shop (é), snack bar (é), museum/exhibit, self-guided tour/trail. Entrance fee required.
Activities:Camping, hiking, wildlife viewing, ranger-guided walks, evening programs and crafts demonstrations (summer months).
Special Features:Several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings are found among the pink mesas and sheer-walled canyons of the Pajarito Plateau. The best-known archeological sites, in Frijoles Canyon near the park visitor center, were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid-1500s, and earliergroups had used the area for thousands of years.
See other parks in New Mexico.