Article: Bandelier National Monument ? New Mexico
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Bandelier National Monument ? New Mexico
Located in north central New Mexico, Bandelier National Monument?s 32,737 acres encompasses a spectacular array of archeological, historic, and natural features. Today, 10,000 years after its first visitors appeared, Bandelier attracts more than 300,000 people each year.
"It is the grandest thing I ever saw," proclaimed Adolph F. Bandelier as he stood at the rim of Frijoles (free-HOH-lace) Canyon in 1880. The grand thing to which he referred was the remains of dwellings of the area?s earlier inhabitants, the Ancestral Pueblo people. Today, you can visit these dwellings and the descendents of the Pueblo. Frijoles Canyon is the best area to experience the prehistoric sites up close and personal.
Since the designation of two-thirds of the park as a wilderness are...
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