A short distance from the main part of Bandelier National Monument, an area on the top of a mesa that was once inhabited by the Ancestral Tewa Pueblo people, has an interpretative trail that lets visitors view petroglyphs, cave dwellings and other ruins that have been excavated here. One of the most interesting features is the part of the trail that has been worn into the rock by generations of pueblo people as they passed back and forth from their mesa-top homes to the fields and springs in the canyon below. You are literally walking in the footsteps of the people who lived here hundreds of years ago.
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