Turkey Spring Trail 118

Alcove House Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 22

~6 min drive

Many find climbing the 140 feet of ladders and stone stairs at Alcove House to be one of the highlights of their visit. Do you think you would have felt differently if you had to climb into this housing area multiple times every day, carrying food, water, and small children? W…

Boundary Peak

~3 min drive

Quick alpine walk with minimal elevation gain near Boundary Peak.

Capulin

~4 min drive

Easy 3.11-mile hike with 480 ft gain near Capulin, NM.

Petroglyphs Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 21

~7 min drive

Petroglyphs (carved drawings) are far more common than pictographs (painted drawings) at Bandelier. Do you see the carving of a macaw under the overhang? How about the one of an elk to the left of the macaw?<br /> <br /> The people of Frijoles Canyon lived, worked, laughed, an…

Turkey Spring

~5 min drive

Accessible 3.35-mile loop to Turkey Spring with 572 ft elevation gain.

Rock Drawings Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 20

~7 min drive

Also look for numerous petroglyphs (carved rock drawings) as you stroll past Long House. There are hundreds of them in this location. There is also a pictograph (painted drawing) under glass. Once upon a time this pictograph was covered with plaster. It was uncovered during ea…

Long House Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 19

~7 min drive

For the next hundred yards you will be walking past Long House. Look for the base layers of rocks that served as the bottom of walls. Today these look-like outlines of stone boxes but once they would have stood several stories high. Take a closer look at the cliff wall behind…

Fire Tyuonyi Overlook Trail Stop 4

~7 min drive

Fire has always been a part of life in the Bandelier area and fires likely burned this area many times while the Ancestral Pueblo people lived here. From studying tree rings scientists know that the natural fire cycle here was a low intensity fire every fifteen years or so. In…

Native Plants Tyuonyi Overlook Trail Stop 3

~7 min drive

The Ancestral Pueblo people had an agricultural-based society and relied heavily on the crops they could produce, storing as much as possible in times of plenty for the years when a dry season produced scarcer harvests. During those times, knowledge of native plants was essent…

Orchard Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 18

~7 min drive

The trees below you are what is left of a historic orchard. When Evelyn Frey, her husband, and son arrived in 1925 to run the park’s first concession they brought dozens of fruit trees with them.