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Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Arizona Map: 330,000 acres (130,000 ha) Respect Great Bend: Dolores River Canyon National Monument Colorado Map: 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) Protect the Dolores: Sátittla and Medicine Lake Highlands National Monument California 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) Protect Medicine Lake Highlands: Kw'tsan National ...
In 2017, US Representative Chris Stewart introduced legislation designating a national park out of the Escalante Canyons unit of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, legislation which he re-introduced in 2020. [35] Rep. Stewart once again proposes new national park in Utah, FOX13Now, 2020: Fall Creek Falls National Park Tennessee 1937
Members of the Navajo Nation (Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico), and the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation (Colorado) live in the Four Corners region on land surrounding the monument. [ 8 ] From the monument, the byway follows U.S. Route 160 , crossing the San Juan River and continuing in a northeasterly direction [ a ] , merging with U.S. Route 491 ...
The Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is nearby. [2] The monument protects a large variety of geological, paleontological and archaeological resources. [2] President Barack Obama designated the monument on May 21, 2014. [3] Half of the monument is designated wilderness and closed to development or motorized use. [4]
National monuments are located in 33 states, Washington, D.C., the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Minor Outlying Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. California has the most national monuments, with 20, followed by Arizona with 19 and New Mexico with 13. At least seventy-nine national monuments protect places of natural significance ...
National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are nine of these in New Mexico.
Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributaries run through the wide and deep canyons into the San Juan River .
National Park Service national monuments in New Mexico (1 C, 9 P) O. Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument (18 P)