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Torrey Pines State Reserve
in U.S. National Natural Landmarks
The Torrey Pines are a small stand of highly endangered pine trees on a bluff in San Diego. It is a state park, so fees are collected at the entrance.
posted by: TerryDad2
location: California
date approved: 9/11/2006
last visited: 12/6/2010
Ashfall Fossil Beds
Ashfall Fossil Beds, north of Royal, NE, has complete skeletons of barrel-bodied rhinos, three-toed horses, llama-like camels, and sabre-toothed deer, all entombed by a Pompeii-line event 12 million years ago.
posted by: plainsdrifter358
location: Nebraska
date approved: 9/5/2006
last visited: 7/29/2009
Barringer Meteor Crater
Barringer Meteorite Crater rises 150 feet above the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona. It is nearly a mile wide and 570 feet deep.
location: Arizona
date approved: 8/22/2006
last visited: 2/26/2013
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Largest desert State park in the Nation, it contains some of the best examples of the various desert biotic communities in the Colorado Desert and excellent examples of desert geological
last visited: 12/11/2011
American River Bluffs and Phoenix Park Vernal Pools
The coordinates are at the Phoenix Park Vernal Pools. The Phoenix Park Vernal Pools are a small patch of nature surrounded by development on all sides. The American River Bluffs run for miles along the American River and have beautiful Blue Oak woodland habitat.
date approved: 8/2/2006
last visited: 5/6/2012
Rancho La Brea
The La Brea Tar Pits have produced a huge number of fossils that have widenend our knowledge of the area's prehistory.
date approved: 7/31/2006
last visited: 6/24/2009
Fort Randall Eagle Roost
Fort Randall Eagle Roost NNL at Randall Creek Recreation Area, Fort Randall Hydroelectric Dam, and the town of Pickstown, SD
location: South Dakota
date approved: 7/8/2006
last visited: 6/11/2006
Red Lake
Red Lake is one of the largest remaining natural and unmanipulated prairie pothole lakes.
last visited: 6/13/2006
Bijou Hills
Bijou Hllls in Charles Mix County, SD, consisting of an erosional remnant of soft clays and shales capped by a channel sandstone and quartzite.
last visited: 6/2/2011
Fort Rock State Monument, Oregon
Fort Rock is a spectacular wave-cut feature standing on the floor of a pluvial lake basin.
posted by: Volcanoguy
location: Oregon
date approved: 6/24/2006
last visited: 9/13/2010
Ancient River Warren Channel
Ancient River Warren Channel has now filled in and is the Minnesota River.
posted by: MNSearchers
date approved: 6/2/2006
last visited: 6/2/2006
Point Lobos State Preserve
A magnificent interaction of land, sea, wildlife and vegetation.
posted by: Bernd das Brot Team
date approved: 5/31/2006
last visited: 7/13/2012
Maramec Spring
The fifth largest spring in Missouri with a flow of 100 million gallons per day. The spring in located in Maramec Spring Park south of St. James, Missouri.
posted by: BruceS
location: Missouri
date approved: 4/21/2006
last visited: 10/8/2011
Newberry Crater
Newberry Crater is a 17 square mile caldera at the summit of Newberry Volcano which covers more than 600 square miles. The National Natural Landmark includes part of the summit area outside the caldera.
date approved: 4/12/2006
last visited: 8/7/2011
