Waterfall at Bandelier National Monument
I forgot to post this picture earlier because I got tripped up writing a post about my visit to Bandelier near Santa Fe, which is notable mainly for an ancestral Puebloan settlement that I just got sucked down into a Wikipedia hole posting about. So I never got any of my pictures up. But I'll post some of them now!
The other big thing at Bandelier that's easily accessible from the visitor center and the parking lot is this giant waterfall. The scale is probably not super easy to see in a photograph, but it's quite tall. Those trees are big and the waterfall is as big as most of them.
It took us well over an hour to get there and back, even though the hike is short, because it was very hot and we are not super strong. The trail goes on for a little further into this canyon, but we stopped as soon as we got to the waterfall because we were beat.
It's crazy how green these canyons are. I even saw a stump further up the canyon that had obvious beaver teeth markings on it.
I didn't really think of these places as being green and wet enough to sustain critters like beavers, but they are!