The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. By Jennifer Schuessler The end of a ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

including the nation’s first national monument established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Devils Tower. Only some of them are managed by the National Park Service. Others are managed ...

The precedent is there. In 2016, then-President Barack Obama designated more than a million acres in southern Utah as Bears Ears National Monument. Nearly one year later, as president, Trump ...

The southernmost tip of Point Loma is where you'll find the Cabrillo National Monument. The statue depicts Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo who, in 1542, was the first European explorer to navigate the ...

At the Bandelier National Monument, visitors can explore the remnants of one of these settlements. At the base of Frijoles Canyon are a collection of ancient cave dwellings and other stone ...

In the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, a push to declare the Caja del Rio a national monument swelled. Dozens of faith, spiritual and tribal leaders in the state urged designation ...

With his signatures, he has officially protected 624,000 acres of ancient, sacred rock formations and sweeping desert washes in eastern Riverside County as the new Chuckwalla National Monument ...

The cliff faces of Bandelier National Monument are adorned with petroglyphs that offer a window into what Ancestral Pueblo people valued 500-700 years ago. One of these carvings is the ...

This gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States was dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886, and designated as a National Monument in 1924. In 1903, a bronze plaque with the poem “The ...

“The whole idea was about promoting tourism and to celebrate the history of our great country ... that the monument shall be similar in size and scope to the Mount Rushmore National Monument.

In 2023, park visitors at the Great Basin National Park spent an estimated $15.4 million in local gateway regions, while the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument brought in $4 million in ...