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National Natural Landmarks Across the U.S.

A Free Guide to Discovering the Wonders of U.S. National Natural Landmarks:

Let us be your guide to discovering these natural wonders. What you'll find here is an alphabetical listing of all our national natural landmarks, with links to the official site of each national natural landmark.

The National Natural Landmarks Program was established by the Secretary of the Interior in 1962 to identify and encourage the preservation of the full range of geological and biological features that are determined to represent nationally significant examples of the nation's natural heritage.

Approximately one-half of the almost 600 landmarks are administered solely by public agencies, nearly one-third are owned entirely by private parties and the remaining are owned or administered by a mixture of public and private owners. Because many natural landmarks are privately owned and/or not managed for public access, owner permission must be obtained prior to visitation.

(You can also visit the official National Natural Landmarks Website.)

The Dismals Canyon Natural National Monument, located 12 miles south of Russellville, in Northwest Alabama

Alphabetical List of U.S. Natural National Monuments in U.S. States -- by State:

ALABAMA

  • Beaverdam Creek Swamp
  • Cathedral Caverns
  • The Dismals Canyon
  • Mobile-Tensaw River Bottomlands
  • Newsome Sinks Karst Area
  • Red Mountain Expressway Cut
  • Shelta Cave

ALASKA

  • Aniakchak Crater
  • Arrigetch Peaks
  • Bogoslof Island
  • Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range
  • Iliamna Volcano
  • Lake George
  • Malaspina Glacier
  • McNeil River State Game Sanctuary
  • Mount Veniaminof
  • Redoubt Volcano
  • Shishaldin Volcano
  • Simeonof Island, Simeonof National Wildlife Refuge
  • Unga Island
  • Walker Lake
  • Walrus Islands
  • Worthington Glacier

ARIZONA

  • Barringer Meteor Crater
  • Canelo Hills Cienega
  • Comb Ridge
  • Grapevine Mesa Joshua Trees
  • Onyx Cave
  • Kaibab Squirrel Area
  • Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary
  • Ramsey Canyon
  • Willcox Playa

ARKANSAS

  • Blue Lake Natural Area
  • Lake Winona Research Natural Area
  • Mammoth Spring
  • Roaring Branch Research Natural Area
  • White River Sugarberry Natural Area

Mount Shasta Natural National Monument, located about 200 miles north of Sacaramento, California CALIFORNIA

  • Amboy Crater
  • American River Bluffs and Phoenix Park Vernal Pools
  • Ano Nuevo Point and Island
  • Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
  • Audubon Canyon Ranch
  • Black Chasm Cave
  • Burney Ralls
  • Cinder Cone Natural
  • Cosumnes River Riparian Woodlands
  • Deep Springs Marsh
  • Dixon Vernal Pools
  • Elder Creek
  • Emerald Bay
  • Eureka Dunes
  • Fish Slough
  • Imperial Sand Hills
  • Irvine Ranch
  • Miramar Mounds
  • Mitchell Caverns and Winding Stair Cave
  • Mount Diablo State Park
  • Mount Shasta
  • Nipomo Dunes-Point Sal Coastal Area
  • Pixley Vernal Pools
  • Point Lobos State Reserve
  • Pygmy Forest
  • Rainbow Basin
  • Rancho La Brea
  • San Andres Fault
  • San Felipe Creek Area
  • Sand Ridge Wildflower Preserve
  • Sharktooth Hill
  • Tijuana River Estuary
  • Torrey Pines State Reserve
  • Trona Pinnacles
  • Turtle Mountains Natural Area

COLORADO

  • Garden of the Gods
  • Garden Park Fossil Area
  • Indian Springs Trace Fossil Site
  • Lost Creek Scenic Area
  • Morrison Fossil Area
  • Raton Mesa
  • Roxborough State Park
  • Russell Lakes
  • Sand Creek
  • Slumgullion Earthflow
  • Spanish Peaks
  • Summit Lake

Torrey Pines State Reserve Natural National Monument, located in the California community of La Jolla, near San Diego CONNECTICUT

  • Bartholomew's Cobble
  • Beckley Bog
  • Bingham Pond Bog
  • Cathedral Pines
  • Chester Cedar Swamp
  • Dinosaur Trackway
  • McLean Game Refuge Natural Areas
  • Pachaug-Great Meadow Swamp

FLORDIA

  • Archbold Biological Station
  • Big Cypress Bend
  • Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
  • Devils Millhopper
  • Emerald March
  • Florida Caverns Natural Area
  • Ichetucknee Springs
  • Lignumvitae Key
  • Manatee Springs
  • Osceola Research Natural Area
  • Paynes Prairie
  • Rainbow Springs
  • Reed Wilderness Seashore Sanctuary
  • San Felasco Hammock
  • Silver Springs
  • Torreya State Park
  • Wacasassa Bay State Preserve
  • Wakulla Springs

GEORGIA

  • Big Hammock Natural Area
  • Camp E. F. Boyd Natural Area
  • Cason J. Callaway Memorial Forest
  • Ebenezer Creek Swamp
  • Heggie's Rock
  • Lewis Island Tract
  • Marshall Forest
  • Okefenokee Swamp
  • Panola Mountain
  • Wassaw Island

Devils Millhopper Natural National Monument, located in Gainesville, Florida HAWAII

  • Diamond Head
  • Iao Valley
  • Kanaha Pond
  • Koolau Range Pali
  • North Shore Cliffs
  • Makalawena Marsh
  • Mauna Kea

IDAHO

  • Big Southern Butte
  • Big Springs
  • Cassia Silent City of Rocks
  • Crater Rings
  • Great Rift System
  • Hagerman Fauna Sites
  • Hell's Half Acre Lava Field
  • Hobo Cedar Grove Botanical Area
  • Menan Buttes
  • Niagara Springs
  • Sheep Rock

ILLINOIS

  • Allerton Natural Area
  • Bell Smith Springs
  • Busse Forest Nature Preserve
  • Forest of the Wabash
  • Fults Hill Prairie Nature Preserve
  • Funks Grove
  • Giant City Geological Area
  • Heron Pond-Little Black Slough Natural Area
  • Horseshow Lake Nature Preserve
  • Illinois Beach Nature Preserve
  • LaRue-Pine Hills Ecological Area
  • Little Grand Canyon Area
  • Lower Cache River Swamp
  • Lusk Creek Canyon
  • Markham Prairie
  • Mississippi Palisades
  • Volo Bog Nature Preserve
  • Wauconda Bog Nature Preserve

INDIANA

  • Big Walnut Creek
  • Cabin Creek Raised Bog
  • Calvert and Porter Woods Nature Preserve
  • Cowles Bog
  • Davis-Purdue Agricultural Center Forest
  • Donaldson Cave System and Woods
  • Dunes Nature Preserve
  • Fern Cliff
  • Hanging Rock and Wabash Reef
  • Harrison Spring
  • Hemmer Woods
  • Hoot Woods
  • Hoosier Prairie
  • Kramer Woods
  • Marengo Cave
  • Meltzer Woods
  • Officer's Woods
  • Ohio Coral Reefs (Falls of the Ohio)
  • Pine Hills Natural Area
  • Pinhook Bog
  • Pioneer Mother's Memorial Forest
  • Portland Arch Nature Preserve
  • Rise at Orangeville
  • Rocky Hollow-Falls Canyon Nature Preserve
  • Shrader-Weaver Woods
  • Tamarack Bog Nature Preserve
  • Tolliver Swallowhole
  • Wesley Chapel Gulf
  • Wesselman Park Woods
  • Wyandotte Cave

Hoosier Prairie Natural National Monument, located in Lake County, in northwest Indiana IOWA

  • Anderson Goose Lake
  • Cayler Prairie
  • Cold Water Cave
  • Dewey's Pasture and Smith's Slough
  • Hayden Prairie
  • Loess Hills
  • White Pine Hollow Preserve

KANSAS

  • Baker University Wetlands
  • Baldwin Woods
  • Big Basin Preserve
  • Monument Rocks Natural Area
  • Rock City

KENTUCKY

  • Big Bone Lick
  • Creelsboro Natural Bridge
  • Henderson Sloughs
  • Lilley Cornett Woods
  • Ohio Coral Reef (Falls of the Ohio)
  • Red River Gorge
  • Rock Creek Research Natural Area

MAINE

  • Appleton Bog Atlantic White Cedar Stand
  • Bigelow Mountain
  • Carrying Place Cove
  • Colby-Marston Preserve
  • Crystal Bog
  • Gulf Hagas
  • The Hermitage
  • Monhegan Island
  • Mount Katahdin
  • New Gloucester Black Gum Stand
  • Number 5 Bog and Jack Pine Stand
  • Orono Bog
  • Passadumkeag Marsh and Boglands
  • Penney Pond-Joe Pond Complex

Sugarloaf Mountain Natural National Monument, located 10 miles south of Frederick, in northern Maryland MARYLAND

  • Battle Creek Cypress Swamp
  • Belt Woods
  • Cranesville Swamp Nature Sanctuary
  • Gilpin's Falls
  • Long Green Creek and Sweathouse Branch
  • Sugarloaf Mountain

MASSACHUSETTS

  • Acushnet Cedar Swamp
  • Bartholomew's Cobble
  • Cold River Virgin Forest
  • Fannie Stebbins Refuge
  • Gay Head Cliffs
  • Hawley Bog
  • Lynnfield Marsh
  • Mount Greylock Old Growth Spruce
  • Muskeget Island
  • North and South Rivers
  • Poutwater Pond

MICHIGAN

  • Black Spruce Bog Natural Area
  • Dead Stream Swamp
  • Dukes Research Natural Area
  • Grand Mere Lakes
  • Haven Hill State Natural Area
  • Newton Woods
  • Porcupine Mountain
  • Roscommon Virgin Pine Stand
  • Strangmoor Bog
  • Toumey Woodlot
  • Warren Woods Natural Area

MINNESOTA

  • Ancient River Warren Channel
  • Cedar Creek Natural History Area-Allison Savannah
  • Itasca Natural Area
  • Lake Agassiz Peatlands Natural Area
  • Keeley Creek Natural Area
  • Lac La Croix Research Natural Area
  • Pine Point Research Natural Area
  • Upper Red Lake Peatland

MISSISSIPPI

  • Bienville Pines Scenic Area
  • Chestnut Oak Disjunct
  • Green Ash-Overcup Oak-Sweetgum Research Natural Areas
  • Harrell Prairie Hill
  • Mississippi Petrified Forest

MISSOURI

  • Big Oak Tree
  • Carroll Cave
  • Cupola Pond
  • Golden Prairie
  • Grand Gulf
  • Greer Spring
  • Maple Woods Natural Area
  • Maramec Spring
  • Onondaga Cave
  • Mark Twain and Cameron Caves
  • Marvel Cave
  • Pickle Springs
  • Taberville Prairie
  • Tucker Prairie
  • Tumbling Creek Cave
  • Wegener Woods

Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Natural National Monument, a remote refuge located in the Centennial Valley, in southwestern Montana MONTANA

  • Bridger Fossil Area
  • Bug Creek Fossil Area
  • Capitol Rock
  • Cloverly Formation Site
  • Glacial Lake Missoula
  • Hell Creek Fossil Area
  • Medicine Lake Site
  • Middle Fork Canyon
  • Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
  • Square Butte

NEBRASKA

  • Ashfall Fossil Beds
  • Dissected Loess Plains
  • Fontenelle Forest
  • Nebraska Sand Hills
  • Valentine National Wildlife Refuge

NEVADA

  • Hot Creek Springs and Marsh
  • Ichthyosaur Site (Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park)
  • Lunar Crater
  • Ruby Marsh
  • Timber Mountain Caldera
  • Valley of Fire

NEW HAMPSHIRE

  • East Inlet Natural Area
  • Floating Island
  • Franconia Notch
  • Heath Pond Bog
  • Nancy Brook Virgin Spruce Forest and Scenic Area
  • Madison Boulder
  • Mount Monadnock
  • Pondicherry Wildlife Refuge
  • Rhododendron Natural Area
  • Spruce Hole Bog
  • White Lake Pitch Pine

Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary Natural National Monument, located at Stone Harbor, Cape May County, New Jersey NEW JERSEY

  • Great Falls of Paterson-Garrett Mountain
  • Great Swamp (Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Manahawkin Bottomland Hardwood Forest
  • Moggy Hollow Natural Area
  • Palisades of the Hudson
  • Pigeon Swamp
  • Riker Hill Fossil Site
  • Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary
  • Sunfish Pond
  • Troy Meadows
  • William L. Hutcheson Memorial Forest

NEW MEXICO

  • Bitter Lake Group
  • Border Hills Structural Zone
  • Bueyeros Shortgrass Plains
  • Fort Stanton Cave
  • Ghost Ranch
  • Grants Lava Flow
  • Kilbourne Hole
  • Mathers Research Natural Area
  • Mescalero Sands South Dune
  • Ship Rock
  • Torgac Cave
  • Valles Caldera

NEW YORK

  • Bear Swamp
  • Bergen-Byron Swamp
  • Big Reed Pond
  • Crazy Fossil Reef
  • Deer Lick Nature Sanctuary
  • Dexter Marsh
  • Ellenville Fault-Ice Caves
  • Fall Brook Gorge
  • Fossil Coral Reef
  • Hart's Woods
  • Hook Mountain and Nyack Beach State Park
  • Iona Island Marsh
  • Ironsides Island
  • Lakeview Marsh and Barrier Beach
  • Long Beach, Orient State Park
  • McLean Bogs
  • Mendon Ponds Park
  • Mianus River Gorge
  • Montezuma Marshes
  • Moss Island
  • Moss Lake Bog
  • Oak Orchard Creek Marsh
  • Palisades of the Hudson
  • Petrified Gardens
  • Round Lake
  • Thompson Pond
  • Zurich Bog

Fort Rock Natural National Monument, located on an Ice Age lake bed in north Lake County, in south-central Oregon NORTH CAROLINA

  • Bear Island
  • Goose Creek State Park Natural Area
  • Green Swamp
  • Long Hope Creek Spruce Bog
  • Mount Jefferson State Natural Area
  • Mount Mitchell State Park
  • Nags Head Woods and Jockey's Ridge
  • Orbicular Diorite
  • Piedmont Beech Natural Area
  • Pilot Mountain
  • Salyer's Ridge Natural Area
  • Smith Island
  • Stone Mountain

NORTH DAKOTA

  • Fischer Lake
  • Rush Lake
  • Sibley Lake
  • Two-Top Mesa and Big Top Mesa

OHIO

  • Arthur B. Williams Memorial Woods
  • Blacklick Woods
  • Brown's Lake Bog
  • Buzzardroost Rock-Lynx Prairie-The Wilderness
  • Cedar Bog
  • Clear Fork Gorge
  • Clifton Gorge
  • Crall Woods
  • Cranberry Bog
  • Dysart Woods
  • Fort Hill State Memorial
  • Glacial Grooves State Memorial
  • Glen Helen Natural Area
  • Goll Woods
  • Hazelwood Botanical Preserve
  • Highbanks Natural Area
  • Holden Natural Areas
  • Hueston Woods
  • Mantua Swamp
  • Mentor Marsh
  • Serpent Mound Cryptoexplosive Structure
  • Tinkers Creek Gorge
  • White Pine Bog Forest

OKLAHOMA

  • Devil's Canyon
  • McCurtain County Wilderness Area
  • Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge

Cook Forest Natural National Monument, located in the rolling hills and mountains along the Clarion River in northwestern Pennsylvania OREGON

  • Crown Point
  • Fort Rock State Monument
  • Horse Ridge Natural Area
  • John Day Fossil Beds
  • Lawrence Memorial Grassland Preserve
  • Newberry Crater
  • Willamette Floodplain

PENNSYLVANIA

  • Bear Meadows Natural Area
  • Box Huckleberry Site
  • Cook Forest
  • Ferncliff Peninsula Natural Area
  • Florence Jones Reineman Wildlife Sanctuary
  • The Glens Natural Area
  • Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
  • Hearts Content Scenic Area
  • Hemlocks Natural Area
  • Hickory Run Boulder Field
  • John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
  • Lake Lacawac
  • McConnell's Mill State Park
  • Monroe Border Fault
  • Nay Aug Park Gorge and Waterfall
  • Nottingham Park Serpentine Barrens
  • Pine Creek Gorge
  • Presque Isle
  • Reynolds Spring and Algerine Swamp Bogs
  • Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area
  • Susquehanna Water Gaps
  • Tamarack Swamp
  • Tannersville Cranberry Bog
  • Tionesta Scenic and Research Natural Areas
  • Titus and Wattsburg Bogs

RHODE ISLAND

  • Ell Pond

SOUTH CAROLINA

  • Congaree River Swamp
  • Flat Creek Natural Area and 40 Acre Rock
  • Francis Beidler Forest
  • John De La Howe Forest
  • Saint Phillips Island
  • Stevens Creek Natural Area

SOUTH DAKOTA

  • Ancient River Warren Channel
  • Bear Butte
  • Bijou Hills
  • Buffalo Slough
  • The Castles
  • Cathedral Spires and Limber Pine Natural Area
  • Cottonwood Slough-Dry Run
  • Fort Randall Eagle Roost
  • Lake Thompson
  • Mammoth Site of Hot Springs
  • Red Lake
  • Sica Hollow
  • Snake Butte

TENNESSEE

  • Arnold Engineering Development Center Natural Areas
  • Big Bone Cave
  • Cedar Glades Natural Area
  • Conley Hole
  • Cumberland Cavern (Higginbotham and Henshaw Caves)
  • Dick Cove
  • Grassy Cove Karst Area
  • Lost Sea (Craighead Caverns)
  • May Prairie
  • McAnulty's Woods
  • Piney Falls
  • Reelfoot Lake
  • Savage Gulf

Enchanted Rock Natural National Monument, located in the Llano Uplift, approximately 15 miles south of Llano, Texas TEXAS

  • Attwater Prairie Chicken Preserve
  • Bayside Resaca Area
  • Catfish Creek
  • Cave Without a Name
  • Caverns of Sonora
  • Devil's Sink Hole
  • Dinosaur Valley
  • Enchanted Rock
  • Ezell's Cave
  • Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • High Plains Natural Area
  • Little Blanco River Bluff
  • Longhorn Cavern
  • Lost Maples State Natural Area
  • Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
  • Natural Bridge Caverns
  • Odessa Meteor Crater
  • Palo Duro Canyon State Park
  • Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

UTAH

  • Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
  • Little Rockies
  • Joshua Tree Natural Area
  • Neffs Canyon Cave

VERMONT

  • Barton River Marsh
  • Battell Biological Preserve
  • Camel's Hump
  • Chazy Fossil Reef
  • Cornwall Swamp
  • Fisher-Scott Memorial Pines
  • Franklin Bog
  • Gifford Woods
  • Lake Willoughby Natural Area
  • Little Otter Creek Marsh
  • Molly Bog
  • Mount Mansfield Natural Area

VIRGINIA

  • Butler Cave-Breathing Cave
  • Caledon Natural Area
  • Charles C. Steirly Natural Area
  • Grand Caverns
  • Great Dismal Swamp
  • Luray Caverns
  • Montpelier Forest
  • Rich Hole (George Washington National Forest)
  • Seashore Natural Area
  • Virginia Coast Reserve

WASHINGTON

  • Boulder Park and McNeil Canyon Haystack Rocks
  • Davis Canyon
  • Drumheller Channels
  • Ginkgo Petrified Forest
  • Grande Coulee
  • Grande Ronde Feeder Dikes
  • Grande Ronde Goosenecks
  • The Great Gravel Bar of Moses Coulee
  • Mima Mounds
  • Nisqually Delta
  • Point of Arches
  • Rose Creek Preserve
  • Sims Corner Esker and Kame Complex
  • Steptoe and Kamiak Buttes
  • Umtanum Ridge Water Gap
  • Wallula Gap
  • Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field

Nisqually Delta Natural National Monument, located in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, southern Puget Sound region. WEST VIRGINIA

  • Big Run Bog (Monongahela National Forest)
  • Blister Run Swamp (Monongahela National Forest)
  • Canaan Valley
  • Cathedral Park
  • Cranberry Glades Botanical Area
  • Cranesville Swamp Nature Sanctuary
  • Fisher Spring Run Bog
  • Gaudineer Scenic Area
  • Germany Valley Karst Area
  • Greenville Saltpeter Cave
  • Lost World Caverns
  • Organ Cave System
  • Shavers Mountain Spruce-Hemlock Stand (Monongahela National Forest)
  • Sinnett-Thorn Mountain Cave System

WISCONSIN

  • Abraham's Woods
  • Avoca River-Bottom Prairie
  • Baraboo Range
  • Bose Lake Hemlock Hardwoods
  • Cave of the Mounds
  • Cedarburg Bog
  • Chippewa River Bottoms
  • Chiwaukee Prairie
  • Finnerud Forest Scientific Area
  • Flambeau River Hemlock-Hardwood Forest
  • Kakagon Sloughs
  • Kickapoo River Natural Area
  • Moquah Barrens Research Natural Area
  • Point Beach Ridges
  • Ridges Sanctuary-Toft's Point-Mud Lake Area
  • Spruce Lake Bog
  • Summerton Bog
  • Wyalusing Hardwood Forest

WYOMING

  • Big Hollow
  • Como Bluff
  • Crooked Creek Natural Area
  • Red Canyon
  • Sand Creek
  • Two Ocean Pass



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