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From Alaska to New York, national monuments can be found in every region of the United States. In total, there are more than 100 existing national monuments for you to explore.
These monuments exist because past presidents and lawmakers had the foresight to protect natural, cultural and historical treasures for future generations.
The Wilderness Society is working with local communities, members of Congress and the presidential administration to see more special places protected as national monuments.
Take a photographic tour of some of America's national monuments:
Here is a list of the 103 current national monuments, including five newly designated in 2013:
- Admiralty Island, Alaska
- African Burial Ground, New York
- Agate Fossil Beds, Nebraska
- Agua Fria, Arizona
- Alibates Flint Quarries, Texas
- Aniakchak, Alaska
- Aztec Ruins, New Mexico
- Bandelier, New Mexico
- Booker T. Washington, Virginia
- Buck Island Reef, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Cabrillo, California
- California Coastal, California
- Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
- Canyons of the Ancients, Colorado
- Cape Krusenstern, Alaska
- Capulin Volcano, New Mexico
- Carrizo Plain, California
- Casa Grande Ruins, Arizona
- Cascade-Siskiyou, Oregon
- Castillo de San Marcos, Florida
- Castle Clinton, New York
- Cedar Breaks, Utah
- Cesar E. Chavez, California
- Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers, Ohio
- Chimney Rock, Colorado
- Chiricahua, Arizona
- Colorado, Colorado
- Craters of the Moon, Idaho
- Devils Postpile, California
- Devils Tower, Wyoming
- Dinosaur, Colorado and Utah
- Effigy Mounds, Iowa
- El Malpais, New Mexico
- El Morro, New Mexico
- First State, Delaware
- Florissant Fossil Beds, Colorado
- Fort Frederica, Georgia
- Fort Matanzas, Florida
- Fort McHenry, Maryland
- Fort Monroe, Virginia
- Fort Ord, California
- Fort Pulaski, Georgia
- Fort Stanwix, New York
- Fort Sumter, South Carolina
- Fort Union, New Mexico
- Fossil Butte, Wyoming
- George Washington Birthplace, Virginia
- George Washington Carver, Missouri
- Giant Sequoia, California
- Gila Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico
- Governors Island, New York
- Grand Canyon-Parashant, Arizona
- Grand Portage, Minnesota
- Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah
- Hagerman Fossil Beds, Idaho
- Hanford Reach, Washington
- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad, Maryland
- Hohokam Pima, Arizona
- Homestead, Nebraska
- Hovenweep, Colorado and Utah
- Ironwood Forest, Arizona
- Jewel Cave, South Dakota
- John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
- Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, New Mexico
- Lava Beds, California
- Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
- Marianas Trench Marine, Northern Mariana Islands and Guam
- Misty Fjords, Alaska
- Montezuma Castle, Arizona
- Mount St. Helens, Washington
- Muir Woods, California
- Natural Bridges, Utah
- Navajo, Arizona
- Newberry, Oregon
- Ocmulgee, Georgia
- Oregon Caves, Oregon
- Organ Pipe Cactus, Arizona
- Pacific Remote Islands Marine, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
- Papahanaumokuakea Marine, Hawaii and U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
- Petroglyph, New Mexico
- Pipe Spring, Arizona
- Pipestone, Minnesota
- Pompeys Pillar, Montana
- Poverty Point, Louisiana
- Prehistoric Trackways, New Mexico
- President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home, District of Columbia
- Rainbow Bridge, Utah
- Rio Grande del Norte, New Mexico
- Rose Atoll Marine, American Samoa
- Russell Cave, Alabama
- Salinas Pueblo Missions, New Mexico
- San Juan Islands National Monument, Washington
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, California
- Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
- Sonoran Desert, Arizona
- Statue of Liberty, New York and New Jersey
- Sunset Crater Volcano, Arizona
- Timpanogos Cave, Utah
- Tonto, Arizona
- Tuzigoot, Arizona
- Upper Missouri River Breaks, Montana
- Vermilion Cliffs, Arizona
- Virgin Islands Coral Reef, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Walnut Canyon, Arizona
- White Sands, New Mexico
- World War II Valor in the Pacific, Hawaii, Alaska and California
- Wupatki, Arizona
- Yucca House, Colorado
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