Local activities

Things to do when visiting Los Alamos

The website Los Alamos Visitor's Guide describes some of the following attractions and many others.

• Bandelier National Monument is the best preserved of several cliff dwellings in the area. Native Americans carved the dwellings into volcanic cliffs. There are several theories for why they abandoned the dwellings about a thousand years ago.
• Puye Cliff Dwellingsare cliff dwellings on the Santa Clara Pueblo. We liked the Santa Clara guide.
• Rose Chocolatier Best chocolate in New Mexico
• [http://www.nps.gov/cave/index.htm Carlsbad Cavern
• White Sands
• Roswell
• High Road to Taos
• Rio Grande Gorge
• Pajarito Ski Lodge
• Deer Trap Mesa
• Bayo Canyon Plum Tree
• Nuclear Tourism Video
• Los Alamos Canyon
• Valles Grande Caldera
• Jemez Springs & Soda Dam A beautiful route from ABQ to Los Alamos, an extra 20 minutes longer than the I-25 hywy.
• Tent Rocks
• Sandia Peak
• Turquoise Trail An old highway between ABQ & SF. Parallel to I-25 - the main route between ABQ & LA. .Lots of old small towns, Madrid is on this route.
• Madrid Mining Town
• Four Corners
• Ship Rock
• Canyon De Chelly The prettiest of the canyons.
• Chaco Canyon Near Gallup, sort of.