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_Name_ |_Location_| _When | _Area | _Description_
| |created_ |(acres)_|
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Gila Cliff| New | Nov. 16,| 160 |Contains numerous cliff
Dwellings| Mexico | 1907 | | dweller ruins of much
| | | | interest and in good
| | | | preservation.
| | | |
Tonto | Arizona | Dec. 19,| 640 |Contains numerous cliff
| | 1907 | | dweller ruins of much
| | | | interest and in good
| | | | preservation.
| | | |
Grand | Arizona | Jan. 11,|806,400 |Contains the most wonderful
Cañon | | 1908 | | portion of the Grand Cañon
| | | | of the Colorado.
| | | |
Jewel Cave| South | Feb. 7, | 1280 |Contains a limestone cavern
| Dakota | 1908 | | of much beauty and
| | | | considerable extent, limits
| | | | of which are as yet unknown.
| | | |
Wheeler | Colorado | Dec. 7, | 300 |Of much interest from
| | 1908 | | geological standpoint as
| | | | example of eccentric erosion
| | | | and extinct volcanic action.
| | | | Of much scenic beauty.
| | | |
Oregon | Oregon | July 12,| 480 |Extensive caves in limestone
Caves | | 1909 | | formation of much beauty.
| | | | Magnitude not entirely
| | | | ascertained.
| | | |
Devil |California| July 6, | 800 |Spectacular mass of hexagonal
Postpile | | 1911 | | basaltic columns, like an
| | | | immense pile of posts. Said
| | | | to rank with famous Giant's
| | | | Causeway, in Ireland.
| | | |
Mount |Washington| Apr. 17,|299,370 |Contains many objects of
Olympus | | 1912 | | great and unusual scientific
| | | | interest, including many
| | | | glaciers. Is summer range
| | | | and breeding-ground of
| | | | Olympic elk.
| | | |
Walnut | Arizona | Nov. 30,| 960 |Contains cliff dwellings of
Cañon | | 1915 | | much scientific and popular
| | | |interest.
| | | |
Bandelier | New | Feb. 11,| 18,000 |Contains vast numbers of
| Mexico | 1916 | | cliff dweller ruins, with
| | | | artificial caves, stone
| | | | sculpture and other relics
| | | | of prehistoric life.
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