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  • THE NATIONAL MONUMENTS AT A GLANCE Administered by National Park Service, Department of the Interior [Number, 32; total area, 3,681 square miles, or 2,356,044.31 acres; chronologically in order of creation] Name Location Area (acres) Special characteristics Devils Tower 1906 Montezuma Castle. 1906 El Morro 1908 Petrified Forest... 1906 Cbaoo Canyon (cha'ko). 1907 Muir Woods • (mur). 1908 Pinnacles Natural Bridges. 1908 Lewis and Clark Cavern.3 1908 Tumacacori (tu mS-ka'-kB-rS). 1908 Navajo (nav'a- ho). 1909 Shoshone Cavern (sho-sho'ne). 1909 Gran Quivira (granke-ve'ra). 1909 Sitka... 1910 Rainbow Bridge 1910 Colorado 1911 Papago Saguaro (pa'pa-go sag- w&'ro). 1914 Dinosaur (di'no- s6r). 1915 Capulln Mountain (kapu'lln). 1916 \'erendrye (ver- ron-dre). 1917 Casa Grande (ka' sagran'da). 1918» "Wyoming Arizona New Mexico. Arizona New Mexico. California ..do Katmai (k&t'ini) 1918 Utah. Molilalia Arizona ....do Wyoming New Mexico. Alaska Utah •Colorado. Arizona. . Utah... New Mexico.. North Dakota Arizona- 1,152 l 1C0 240 25, 025 i 20,029 426.43 2,980. 26 l 2, 740 160 10 '360 210 Alaska. 1,940.43 80 681 253.04 480 1,087,990 Remarkable natural rock tower, of volcanic origin, 1,200 feet in height. Prehistoric cliff-dwelling ruin of unusual size situated in a niche in face of a vertical cliff. Of scenic and ethnologicinterest. A Enormous sandstone cliff eroded in form of a 0 upon which inscriptions have been^gtced by early Spanish explorers. Contains cliff-dwwier ruins, (if great historic, scenic, and ethnologicinterest. Abundance of petrified coniferous trees, one of which forms a small natural bridge. Is of great scientific interest. Numerous ruins of cliff-dwellings and many large pueblos or communal houses, in good condition and but little excavated. One of the most noted redwood groves in California, and was donated by Hon. William Kent, ex-Member of Congress. Located 7 miles from San Francisco. Many spire-like rock formations, 600 to 1,000 feet high, visible many miles; also numerous caves and other formations. 3 natural bridges, among largest examples of their kind. Largest bridge is 222 feet high, 65 feet thick at top of arch; arch is 28 feet wide; span, 261 feet; height of span, 157 feet. Other two slightly smaller. Immense limestone cavern of great scientific interest, magnificently decorated with stalactite formal ions. Now closed to public because of depredations by vandals. Kuin of Franciscan mission dating from seventeenth century. Being restored by National Park Servieo rapidly as funds permit. Numerous pueblo, or cliff-dweller ruins, in good preservation. Cavern of considerable extent, near Cody. One of the most important of earliest Spanish mission ruins in the Southwest. Monument also contains pueblo ruins. Park of great natural beauty and historic interest as scene of massacre of Russians by Indians. Contains 16 totem poles of best native workmanship. Unique natural bridge of great scientific interest and symmetry. Height 309 feet above water, and span is 278 feet, in shape of rainbow. Many lofty monoliths, and is wonderful example of erosion, and of great scenic beauty and interest. Splendid collection of characteristic desert flora and numerous pictographs. Interesting rock forms due to erosion. Deposits of fossil remains of prehistoric animal lite of great scientific interest. Huge cinder cone of geologically recent formation. Includes Crowhigh Butte, high butte, from which Explorer Vorendrye first beheld territory beyond Missouri River. These ruins are one of the most noteworthy relics of a prehistoric age and people within the limits of the United States. Discovered in ruined condition in 1694. Wonderland of great scientific interest as example of volcanism on a scale of great magnitude. Includes "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes." 1 Estimated. ' Donated to the United States. • From June 22,1892, until Aug. 3, 1918, classified as a national park
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