HCR 1, Box 1, Suite 15
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544-9701

Phone: 505-672-3861

www.nps.gov/band

Proclaimed:  February 11, 1916. 

Acreage: 32,737, all federal

Wilderness area: 23,267 acres

Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier 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, and earlier groups had used the area for thousands of years. The park was named for Adolph Bandelier, a 19th-century anthropologist. 

- text from the web site of the National Park Service

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