National Monuments

Fort Union National Monument is located near Watrous, New Mexico. Fort Union was built in 1851 as a building to protect the road to Santa Fe.

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is in the Gila area of New Mexico. This was the Nation's First Wilderness Area. Gila Cliff Dwellings were built in the thirteenth century by people known as Mogollons.

Grand National Monument Grand Staircase-Escalante extends over an area of nearly two million acres in southern Utah in the USA. The territory of the Grand National Monument Grand Staircase-Escalante has three main regions.