Kivas at Bandelier National Monument - Sandoval County, New Mexico
N 35° 47.003 W 106° 16.461
13S E 384829 N 3960671
Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument contains a great amount of evidence of ancestral pueblo habitation including cavates, kivas, rock paintings, and petroglyphs.
Waymark Code: WMWC4W
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2017
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Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument contains a great amount of evidence of ancestral pueblo habitation including cavates, kivas, rock paintings, and petroglyphs.
Some of the dwellings were rock structures built on the canyon floor; others were cavates produced by voids in the volcanic tuff of the canyon wall and carved out further by humans. A 1.2-mile (1.6 km), predominantly paved, "Main Loop Trail" from the visitor center affords access to these features. A trail extending beyond this loop leads to Alcove House (formerly called Ceremonial Cave, and still so identified on some maps), a shelter cave produced by erosion of the soft rock and containing a small, reconstructed kiva that hikers may enter via ladder.
Some of the cavates have ladders that you can climb to see first-hand what one of these dwellings was like.
Type: Ruins
How did you find this "Ancient Evidence": Hiking
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Trailhead: Not Listed
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