Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just waiting to be explored? America is packed with jaw-dropping natural wonders ...

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. What is a national monument, anyway? That’s what I kept asking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 730,000 people visit Colorado National Monument each year. It was established in 1911 under the Antiquities Act. Gordon ...

Approved by Congress in 2020, the monument will be located on two and a half acres in the Congressional Gardens.

President Biden on Tuesday established two new national monuments in California, the latest in a flurry of major environmental initiatives affecting the Golden State as his presidency comes to a close ...

President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act in 1906 and used the law 17 times to expand protections on existing federal lands across the country. Since then, it’s been used more than 300 ...

All of America's national monuments must be reviewed for potential oil and gas drilling and mining reserves, critics say, per bureaucratic language tucked deep in a sweeping order issued on Monday by ...

The 31 national monuments designated since the Clinton administration, which could be downsized as the Trump administration pushes to open more public lands to extractive industries, safeguard clean ...

Even with its Pride flag restored, New York City’s iconic Stonewall National Monument has been put on an endangered list of historic national places.

California has long been known as a protector of its lands — about 25% of the state, in fact. Preserved landscapes range from glacial valleys and alpine lakes to volcanic craters, salt flats, vast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 730,000 people visit Colorado National Monument each year. It was established in 1911 under the Antiquities Act. Gordon ...