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
• 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
• Our House
• Valles Grande Caldera
• Jemez Springs & Soda Dam
• Tent Rocks
• Sandia Peak
• Turquoise Trail
• Madrid Mining Town
• Four Corners
• Ship Rock
• Canyon De Chelly
• Chaco Canyon