Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (Back to Landscapes Program Index)

	Vermilion Cliffs © by Michael Collier

Following several visits to the Arizona Strip in the summer of 2000, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt officially recommended to President Clinton that he create Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. On November 9, President Clinton designated the 294,000-acre monument. The monument encompasses an array of scientific and historic resources and is a beautiful and remote landscape of brilliant sandstone cliffs, deep canyons and rare geologic features. In addition, the monument is home to big horn sheep and is a release site for the California Condor. Evidence of Native America hunting and gathering activities dates back over 12,000 years.

The Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is bordered by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and BLM lands to the east, the Utah border to the North, Coyote Wash and the North Kaibab National Forest to the west, and Highway 89 to the south. Grazing has been voluntarily retired from the Paria Canyon and Portions of Coyote Buttes by the permittee.

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