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[1] [2] The monument, a former weapons testing range, is part of Fort Bliss and is managed by the U.S. Army as the only land conservation national monument within the Department of Defense. The monument includes the eastern slopes of North Franklin Mountain, the highest peak in the area.
Colorado National Monument. Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument. The nine National Monuments in Colorado are: Browns Canyon National Monument [a] near Nathrop (February 19, 2015, Obama) Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River valley (October 12, 2022, Biden)
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km 2); it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in ...
The monument within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge includes the site of the 19-day battle to reclaim Attu, artifacts of the occupation at Kiska, and the crash site of a U.S. B-24D Liberator on Atka Island. Originally designated as part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, which was divided and renamed March 12 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... At Castner Range National Monument: 5: ... Fort Bliss National Cemetery. March 8, 2016 ...
Colorado National Monument; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Conejos River; Coors Field; Cortez Municipal Airport; Crestone Peak; Crestones; Denver; Dick's Sporting Goods Park; Elk Mountains (Colorado) Empower Field at Mile High; Falcon Stadium; Florissant Formation; Folsom Field; Fort Collins, Colorado; Fremont Pass (Colorado) Gore Range; Grand ...
Castner Range was an artillery range for Fort Bliss and has been unused since the 1970s. [46] In 2012, Representative Silvestre Reyes introduced a bill to transfer the area to the Franklin Mountains State Park. [47] In 2016, efforts were underway to petition President Barack Obama to declare the area a national monument. [45]
Monument Canyon. Colorado National Monument is a National Park Service unit near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinyon and juniper forests on the plateau.