Bandelier National Monument

Located south of Los Alamos on the pajarito Plateau, Bandelier overlooks the Rio Grande River. Interpreter Rod Torrez explains volcanic eruptions more than a million years ago created the Jemez Mountains. Ash settling on the eastern flank of the mountains solidified into a solid skirt known as Bandelier Tuff - a formation 900 feet thick that eventually formed the Pajarito Plateau.

15 Entrance Road
Los Alamos, NM 87544
505-672-3861

http://www.hps.gov/band
Jason Lott, park superintendent

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Travel & Events

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• Tourism
• New Mexico
• Bandelier
• outdoor
• Native Amercian
• history