• overview of Long House

    Bandelier

    National Monument New Mexico

  • Access to Frijoles Canyon Will Be Limited

    Starting June 1, 2012 all access to the most visited part of the park, Frijoles Canyon, will be via a shuttle bus from the nearby community of White Rock. This is to alleviate a parking shortage created by the Las Conchas Fire. More details to follow.

Community Life

community life

NPS Collection

Everyone worked together for the good of the community.

Daily lives were guided by ceremonial and social traditions. Men made tools, traded, hunted, farmed, and taught young boys these skills. Women made pottery, plastered homes, gathered food and water, ground corn, and instructed the young girls who worked beside them. Everyone worked together for the good of the community.

Did You Know?

Valles Caldera

The Valles Caldera is the collapsed summit of the Jemez Volcano which erupted over 1 million years ago.  Ash from this volcano formed the volcanic tuff from which the Ancestral Pueblo people built their homes.