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Find U.S. National Monuments from across the United States and around the world including the Civil Rights Monument, the Dinosaur National Monument and the Statue of Liberty.
Agua Fria National Monument
Arizona
Agua Fria National Monument is in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately 40 miles (64km) north of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Over 450 distinct Native American structures have been recorded in the monument, some of large pueblos containing more than 100 rooms each.
Basin and Range National Monument
Nevada
Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately 704,000 acres of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada. It is described as "one of the emptiest spaces in a state famous for its emptiness."
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument
California
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument is a national monument of the United States comprising 330,780 acres (133,860ha) of the California Coast Ranges in Napa, Yolo, Solano, Lake, Colusa, Glenn and Mendocino counties in northern California. Cache Creek Wilderness is located within the monument.
California Coastal National Monument
California
The California Coastal National Monument is located along the entire coastline of the U.S. state of California. This monument ensures the protection of all islets, reefs and rock outcroppings along the coast of California within 12 nautical miles (22km) of shore along the entire 840-mile (1,350km) long coastline.
Devils Tower National Monument
Wyoming
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558m) above sea level.
El Malpais National Monument
New Mexico
El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The name El Malpais is from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the extremely barren and dramatic volcanic field that covers much of the park's area.
Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Monument
Illinois, Mississippi
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a United States national monument that honors Emmett Till, an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, and his mother, Mamie Till, who became an advocate in the Civil Rights Movement.
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Florida
Fort Matanzas National Monument was designated a United States National Monument on October 15, 1924. The monument consists of a 1740 Spanish fort called Fort Matanzas, and about 100 acres of salt marsh and barrier islands along the Matanzas River on the northern Atlantic coast of Florida.
Fort Ord National Monument
California
Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument, managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
Virginia
The George Washington Birthplace National Monument is a national monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at the confluence of Popes Creek and the Potomac River. It commemorates the birthplace location of George Washington, a Founding Father and the first President of the United States, who was born here on February 22, 1732.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Idaho
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument near Hagerman, Idaho, contains the largest concentration of Hagerman horse fossils in North America. The fossil horses for which the monument is famous have been found in only one locale in the northern portion of the monument called the Hagerman Horse Quarry.
Jewel Cave National Monument
South Dakota
Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world, with 217.32 miles (349.74 kilometers) of mapped passageways. It is located approximately 13 miles (21km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Montana
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25 and 26, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana. It also serves as a memorial to those who fought in the battle: George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry and a combined Lakota-Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho force.
Military Working Dog Teams National Monument
Texas
The Military Working Dog Teams National Monument is a monument to military working dogs located at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA)-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. The monument represents handlers, dogs, and veterinary support, from all military service branches (Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard) that have made up the Military Working Dog program since World War II.
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
Hawaii, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) is a World Heritage listed U.S. National Monument encompassing 583,000 square miles of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Pipestone National Monument
Minnesota
Pipestone National Monument is located in southwestern Minnesota, just north of the city of Pipestone. The quarries are sacred to many tribal nations of North America, including the Dakota, Lakota, and other tribes of Native Americans, and were considered neutral territory in the historic past where all Nations could quarry stone for ceremonial pipes.
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
New Mexico
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is a national monument in the Robledo Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico near the city of Las Cruces. The site includes a major deposit of Paleozoic Era fossilized footprints in fossil mega-trackways of land animals, sea creatures, and insects.
San Juan Islands National Monument
Washington
San Juan Islands National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the Salish Sea in the state of Washington. The monument protects archaeological sites of the Coast Salish peoples, lighthouses and relics of early European American settlers in the Pacific Northwest, and biodiversity of the island life in the region.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Nebraska
Scotts Bluff National Monument is located west of the City of Gering in western Nebraska. This National Park Service site protects over 3,000 acres of historic overland trail remnants, mixed-grass prairie, rugged badlands, towering bluffs and riparian area along the North Platte River.
Stonewall National Monument
New York
Stonewall National Monument is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBT rights and history. President Barack Obama designated it as a national monument on June 24, 2016. The monument is located in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Tonto National Monument
Arizona
Tonto National Monument is a National Monument in the Superstition Mountains, in Gila County of central Arizona. The area lies on the northeastern edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion. Well-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the Salado culture during the 13th, 14th, and early 15th centuries.
Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
US Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located off Saint John, Virgin Islands. Seeking to provide greater protection to the sensitive coral reef resources, President Clinton established the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument on January 17, 2001.
Wupatki National Monument
Arizona
The Wupatki National Monument is a United States National Monument located in north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff. Rich in Native American archaeological sites, the monument is administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument
Alaska
The Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is located on three islands in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It was designated as part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument by an executive order of George W. Bush on December 5, 2008, with sites in Alaska, California, and Hawaii.
Aztec Ruins National Monument
New Mexico
The Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwestern New Mexico, USA, consists of preserved structures constructed by the Pueblo Indians. The national monument lies on the western bank of the Animas River in Aztec, New Mexico, about 12 miles (19km) northeast of Farmington.
Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
Alabama
The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument is a United States National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama established in 2017 to preserve and commemorate the work of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and other Civil Rights Movement events and actions.
Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument
Colorado
Camp Hale was a U.S. Army training facility in the western United States, constructed in 1942 for what became the Tenth Mountain Division. Located in central Colorado between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River Valley at an elevation of 9,200 feet above sea level, it was named for General Irving Hale.
Carrizo Plain National Monument
California
The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California. On January 12, 2001, President Bill Clinton signed a presidential proclamation establishing the Carrizo Plain as a national monument.
César E. Chávez National Monument
California
César E. Chávez National Monument, also known as Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, is a 116-acre (47ha) U.S. National Monument in Keene, Kern County, California, located about 32 miles away from Bakersfield, California. The property was the headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW), and home to César Chávez from the early 1970s until his death in 1993.
El Morro National Monument
New Mexico
El Morro National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Cibola County, New Mexico. Located on an ancient east-west trail in the western part of the state, the monument preserves the remains of a large prehistoric pueblo atop a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Colorado
The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. The formation is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales.
Fort McHenry National Monument
Maryland
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from the Chesapeake Bay on September 13-14, 1814.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Georgia
Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the Union Army successfully tested rifled cannon in combat during the American Civil War in 1862, the success of which rendered brick fortifications obsolete.
Fossil Butte National Monument
Wyoming
Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles (24km) west of Kemmerer, Wyoming. It centers on an assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and plant fossils associated with Fossil Lake.
George Washington Carver National Monument
Missouri
George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The site preserves the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery.
Hanford Reach National Monument
Washington
The Hanford Reach National Monument is a national monument in the U.S. state of Washington. It was created in 2000, mostly from the former security buffer surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The area has been untouched by development or agriculture since 1943.
Hovenweep National Monument
Colorado, Utah
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.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Oregon
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Located within the John Day River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
Guam, Northern Mariana Islands
The Marianas Trench Marine National Monument is a United States National Monument created by President George W. Bush. The monument includes no dry land area, but protects 95,216 square miles of submerged lands and waters in various places in the Mariana Archipelago.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Arizona
Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between approximately AD 1100 and 1425.
Natural Bridges National Monument
Utah
Natural Bridges National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located about 50 miles (80km) northwest of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah, in the western United States, at the junction of White Canyon and Armstrong Canyon, part of the Colorado River drainage.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Arizona
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U.S. national monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona that shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora. The park is the only place in the United States where the senita and organ pipe cactus grow wild.
Pompeys Pillar National Monument
Montana
Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a rock formation located in south central Montana, United States. Designated a national monument on January 17, 2001, and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in conjunction with The Friends of Pompeys Pillar, it consists of only 51 acres (21ha), making it one of the smallest National Monuments in the U.S.
President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument
District of Columbia
President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument, sometimes shortened to President Lincoln's Cottage, is a national monument on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, known today as the Armed Forces Retirement Home. It is located near Brookland in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's Cottage was formerly known as Anderson Cottage.
Russell Cave National Monument
Alabama
Russell Cave National Monument is a U.S. national monument in northeastern Alabama, United States, close to the town of Bridgeport. The monument was established on May 11, 1961, when 310 acres of land were donated by the National Geographic Society to the American people.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
New Mexico
The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a complex of three Spanish missions located in the U.S. state of New Mexico, near Mountainair. The main park visitor center is in Mountainair. Construction of the missions began in 1622 and was completed in 1635.
Sand to Snow National Monument
California
Sand to Snow National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in San Bernardino County and northern Riverside County, Southern California. It protects diverse montane and desert habitats of the San Bernardino Mountains, southern Mojave Desert, and northwestern Colorado Desert.
Sonoran Desert National Monument
Arizona
Sonoran Desert National Monument is south of Goodyear and Buckeye and east of Gila Bend, Arizona. Created by Presidential proclamation on January 17, 2001, the 496,400 acres (200,886ha) monument is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Arizona
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is a U.S. national monument created to protect Sunset Crater, a cinder cone within the San Francisco Volcanic Field. The monument is managed by the National Park Service in conjunction with nearby Wupatki National Monument.
Tule Lake National Monument
California
The Tule Lake National Monument in Modoc and Siskiyou counties in California, consists primarily of the site of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, one of ten concentration camps constructed in 1942 by the United States government to incarcerate Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast.
Yucca House National Monument
Colorado
Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc (headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe) and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
Texas
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the state of Texas. For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high-quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates flint through the Great Plains and beyond.
Bandelier National Monument
New Mexico
Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (13,629ha) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between 1150 and 1600 AD.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Virginia
The Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Monument near the community of Hardy, Virginia, and is located entirely in rural Franklin County, Virginia. It preserves portions of the 207-acre tobacco farm on which educator and leader Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856.
Castle Clinton National Monument
New York
Castle Clinton (also known as Fort Clinton and Castle Garden) is a restored circular sandstone fort within Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City. Built from 1808 to 1811, it was the first American immigration station, predating Ellis Island.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Ohio
The Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Monument of the United States, commemorates the life of Charles Young (1864-1922), an escaped slave who rose to become a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and its first African-American colonel.
Colorado National Monument
Colorado
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.
Devils Postpile National Monument
California
Devils Postpile National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located near Mammoth Mountain in Eastern California. The monument protects Devils Postpile, an unusual rock formation of columnar basalt, all closely and perfectly fitted together like a vast mosaic.
Ellis Island National Monument
New Jersey, New York
Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. Today, it is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and is accessible to the public only by ferry. The north side of the island is the site of the main building, now a national museum of immigration.
Fort Monroe National Monument
Virginia
Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula. Fort Monroe originally guarded the navigation channel between the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, the natural roadstead at the confluence of the Elizabeth, the Nansemond and the James rivers.
Giant Sequoia National Monument
California
The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a 328,000-acre (512 sq mi) U.S. National Monument located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central California. It is administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Sequoia National Forest and includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves that are located in the Sequoia National Forest.
Governors Island National Monument
New York
Governors Island National Monument, a unit of the United States national park system, is located in New York City on 22 acres of Governors Island, a 172-acre island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East Rivers in New York Harbor.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument
Maryland
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is a 480-acre (190ha) National Park Service unit in the U.S. state of Maryland. It commemorates the life of former enslaved Harriet Tubman, who became an activist in the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War.
Ironwood Forest National Monument
Arizona
Ironwood Forest National Monument is located in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Created by Bill Clinton by Presidential Proclamation 7320 on June 9, 2000, the monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the United States Department of the Interior.
Jurassic National Monument
Utah
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as the Morrison Formation.
Misty Fjords National Monument
Alaska
Misty Fjords National Monument (or Misty Fiords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest. Misty Fiords is about 40 miles (64km) east of Ketchikan, Alaska, along the Inside Passage coast in extreme southeastern Alaska.
Poverty Point National Monument
Louisiana
Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana. Evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much of the Southeastern Woodlands of the Southern United States.
Río Grande del Norte National Monument
New Mexico
The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument is an approximately 242,555-acre area of public lands in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, proclaimed as a national monument on March 25, 2013, by President Barack Obama under the provisions of the Antiquities Act.
Statue of Liberty National Monument
New Jersey, New York
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States National Monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a national monument in 1924.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Nevada
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and protects part of the Tule Springs.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Arizona
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is located in northern Coconino County, Arizona, United States, immediately south of the Utah state line. This national monument, 293,689 acres (118,852ha) in area, protects the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon.
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