Alcove House

The view from inside Alcove House.

NPS / Sally King

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About a mile upstream from Bandelier National Monument Visitor Center, and 140 feet above the canyon floor, is a natural-eroded alcove about 65 feet wide called Alcove House. Visitors can access it by climbing four long wooden ladders and a series of narrow stone stairs. Alcove House was a place of habitation for Ancestral Pueblo people. They were part of the community of people who also lived in the talus houses and the large village, Tyuonyi. Alcove House was two stories high and had 23 rooms, a kiva, and turkey pens.

The Pueblo Loop Trail connects to the Alcove House Trail.