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Show Type of area and name National Forests: Ashley Dixie Fishlake La Sal Manti Uinta Wasatch NEW MEXICO National Monuments: Aztec Ruins Chaco Canyon El Morro Gila Cliff Dwellings National Forests: Carson Cibola Gila ARIZONA National Park: Grand Canyon National Monuments: Canyon de Chelly _ Casa Grande Chiricahua Grand Canyon Montezuma Castle . Navajo Organ Pipe Cactus Petrified Forest Pipe Spring Saguaro Sunset Crater Tonto Footnotes at end of table. Acreage1 * 1,115,537 1,838,990 1,524,465 5 543,442 796,004 6 983,980 ^ 1,011,215 26 18,039 240 160 1,115,992 1,795,700 2,395,583 645,136 83,840 473 10,530 196,051 521 360 328,162 85,304 40 53,669 3,040 1,120 Outstanding characteristics Uinta Mountains with 350 lakes and good trout streams. Kings Peak, 13,498 feet. Scenic canyon* along the Green River. High Uintas Primitive Area. High plateaus and mountains of southwest Utah. Colorful cliffs and canyons. Numerous lakes and trout streams. Big game and waterfowl. Mountain peaks and alpine lakes. Scenic canyons. Large deer herd. Rugged mountain scenery. Mount Peale, 13,000 feet. Elk Ridge and Abajo Peak. Colorful canyons and Indian pueblo ruins. Wasatch Plateau with colorful cliffs and canyons. Pictographs. Fine displays of wildflowers. Trout streams and big game. Rugged mountains cut by picturesque canyons. Trout streams and big game. High mountain country containing numerous alpine lakes and trout streams. High Uintas Primitive Area. The ruins of a great prehistoric American Indian town built of masonry and timber in the twelfth century; largely excavated and stabilized. Thirteen major Indian ruins without equal in the United States, representing highest point of Pueblo prehistoric civilization; hundreds of smaller ruins. " Inscription Rock," soft sandstone monolith on which are carved hundreds of inscriptions, including those of early Spanish explorers and early American emigrants and settlers; also prehistoric petroglyphs. Well- preserved cliff dwellings in four natural cavities in the face of an overhanging cliff; 150 feet high. Rugged mountain country; big game and turkey hunting; trout streams, lakes and hot springs; some winter sports; camping and picnic areas. Isolated wooded mountain ranges in desert country; developed winter sports, developed camp and picnic areas; big and small game hunting; some fishing; saddle- pack trips; prehistoric ruins. Rugged mountains. Black Range and Gila Wilderness Areas. Famous big- game country. Hot springs. Fishing streams. Tremendous mile- deep gorge, 4 to 18 miles wide, 217 miles long of which 105 miles are within the park; fantastically eroded and colored rock masses. Prehistoric Indian ruins built at the base of sheer red cliffs or in caves in canyon walls; modern Navajo Indian homes and farms. A ruined adobe tower built by Indians who farmed the Gila Valley 600 years ago; the only prehistoric building of its particular type still standing. Wilderness of unusual rock shapes; rock strata telling story of nearly a billion years of the earth's forces. Part of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado containing Toroweap Point with its unusual view of the Inner Gorge and recent lava dam. One of the best- preserved and most interesting cliff dwellings in the United States; built in cavern- pitted limestone cliff; original 5- story, 20- room Castle is 90 percent intact. Contains three of the largest and most intricate of known cliff dwellings- Betatakin, Keet Seel, and Inscription House. Examples of organ pipe cactus and other desert plants found nowhere else in United States; traces of the Camino del Diablo, historic Spanish route. Most spectacular display of petrified wood known in the world; Indian ruins and petroglyphs; portion of colorful Painted Desert. Contains historic Mormon fort, also structures built by Mormons during 1869- 70 and latei used by private ranchers and as cattle- buying and shipping point; commemorates significant phase of westward movement by American pioneer. Cactus forest containing giant saguaro unique to deserts of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Truncated volcanic cone, the upper portion so highly colored as to give rim appearance of sunset glow; lava flows and ice caves. Two large and well- preserved Pueblo cliff dwellings occupied during the early part of the fourteenth century by Indians who farmed in the Salt River Valley. 218 |