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    Explore Colorado National Monument, Colorado

    Explore Colorado National Monument, Colorado

    Colorado National Monument (locally referred to as The Monument) is near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Spectacular canyons cut deep into sandstone and even granite–gneiss–schist rock formations, in some areas. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinion and juniper forests on the plateau. The park hosts a wide range of ...
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    Explore Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho

    Explore Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho

    Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a national monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho, U.S.A. It is along US 20 (concurrent with US 93 & US 26), between the small cities of Arco and Carey, at an average elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea level. The protected area's features are volcanic and repre...
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    Visit Devils Postpile National Monument, California

    Visit Devils Postpile National Monument, California

    Devils Postpile National Monument is located near Mammoth Mountain in extreme northeastern Madera County in eastern California. It was established in 1911, and protects Devils Postpile, an unusual formation of columnar basalt. Devils Postpile National Monument contains 798 acres (3.23 km2) and includes two main tourist attractions: Devils Postpile (a columnar basalt f...
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    Visit Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming

    Visit Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming

    Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level. In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Towe...
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    Explore Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado & Utah

    Explore Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado & Utah

    Dinosaur National Monument is a National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah. The nearest communities a...
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    Explore Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

    Explore Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

    Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by Native Americans including numerous effigy mounds shaped like animals, including bears and birds. It is located in Allamakee County and Clayton County, Iowa in the midwestern United States. Prehistoric earthworks by mound builder cultures are common in the Midwest, but only in southern...
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    Explore El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico

    Explore 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. The El Malpais is part of the Zuni-Bandera volcanic field, the second largest vo...
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    Explore El Morro National Monument, New Mexico

    Explore El Morro National Monument, New Mexico

    El Morro National Monument is located on an ancient east-west trail in western New Mexico. The main feature of this National Monument is a great sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base. As a shaded oasis in the western U.S. desert, this site has seen many centuries of travelers. The remains of a mesa top pueblo are atop the promontory where between about...
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    Visit Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, Illinois & Mississippi

    Visit Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, Illinois & Mississippi

    The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a planned United States national monument. The monument honors Emmett Till, an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The monument is set across three si...
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    See Eternal Light Peace Memorial, Gettysburg National Military Park

    See Eternal Light Peace Memorial, Gettysburg National Military Park

    The Eternal Light Peace Memorial is a 1938 Gettysburg Battlefield monument dedicated on July 3, 1938, commemorating the 1913 Gettysburg reunion for the 50th anniversary of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1913. The natural gas flame in a one-ton bronze urn is atop a tower on a stone pedestrian terrace with views from the terraced hill summit over about 400 sq ...
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    Explore Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

    Explore Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

    The Florissant Fossil Bed National Monument is a national monument located in Teller County, Colorado. The location is famous for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales. Based on argon radiometric dating, the formation is Eocene (approximately 34 million years old ) in age and has been interpreted a...
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    Visit Fort Frederica National Monument, Georgia

    Visit Fort Frederica National Monument, Georgia

    Fort Frederica National Monument, on St. Simons Island, Georgia, preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort and town built by James Oglethorpe between 1736 and 1748 to protect the southern boundary of the British colony of Georgia from Spanish raids. About 630 British troops were stationed at the fort. A town of up to 500 colonial residents had grown up outside t...
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    Visit Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida

    Visit Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida

    Fort Matanzas National Monument is a United States National Monument run by the National Park Service. The Monument consists of a 1740 Spanish fort, Fort Matanzas, and about 100 acres (0.4 km²) of salt marsh and barrier islands along the Matanzas River on the northern Atlantic coast of Florida. It is operated by the Park Service in conjunction with the Castillo d...
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    Visit Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland

    Visit Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland

    Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay. It was during the bombardment of the fort that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem that would eventually be set to the tune ...
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    Visit Fort Monroe National Monument, Virginia

    Visit Fort Monroe National Monument, Virginia

    Fort Monroe (also known as the Fort Monroe National Monument) was a military installation in Hampton, Virginia—at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula. Within the 565 acres of Fort Monroe are 170 historic buildings and nearly 200 acres of natural resources, including 8 miles of waterfront, 3.2 miles of beaches on the Chesapeake Bay, 110 ...
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