Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument

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Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument
A sign indicating an entrance to the monument on the Toroweap road
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Location	Mohave County, Arizona, USA
Nearest city	Las Vegas, Nevada
Coordinates	36°24′N 113°42′W / 36.400°N 113.700°W / 36.400; -113.700
Area	1,048,325 acres (4,242.42 km)
Created	January 11, 2000 (2000-January-11)
Governing body	National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management
Website	Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument

Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument (sometimes referred to as Parashant National Monument) is located on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona, on the Arizona Strip. The monument was established by Presidential Proclamation 7265 on January 11, 2000.

Description

The national monument is a very remote and undeveloped place jointly managed by the National Park Service (NPS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). There are no paved roads into the monument and no visitor services. The 1,048,325-acre (424,242 ha) monument is larger than the state of Rhode Island. The BLM portion of the monument consists of 808,747 acres (327,288 ha). The NPS portion contains 208,453 acres (84,358 ha) of lands that were previously part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. There are also about 23,205 acres (9,391 ha) of Arizona State Land Department lands and 7,920 acres (3,210 ha) of private lands within the monument boundaries. Grand Canyon–Parashant is not considered a separate unit of the NPS because its NPS area is counted in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Elevation ranges from 1,230 feet (370 m) above sea level near Grand Wash Bay at Lake Mead, to 8,029 feet (2,447 m) at Mount Trumbull. The Interagency Information Center is located in the BLM Office in St. George, Utah.

The name Parashant is derived from the Paiute word Pawteh 'ee oasoasant, meaning "tanned elk hide," or "softening of the elk hide."

There are a number of ruins of former Mormon settlements in the area, such as the Oak Grove Dairy.

Wilderness areas

Grand Canyon–Parashant includes the following wilderness areas:

Cave animals

So far, a 2005 expedition to examine 24 caves in the park has produced two new species of millipede, the first barklouse discovered in North America, a whole new genus of cricket and four new cricket species.

References

^ "National Monument detail table as of April 2012" (PDF). Bureau of Land Management. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
Proclamation 7265 of January 11, 2000, Establishment of the Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2001-title3-vol1/xml/CFR-2001-title3-vol1-proc7265.xml. Retrieved 2012-1-27
Rogers, Keith (2000-07-03). "A New Playground to Kick Around On". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"Oak Grove – Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
"NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus". Northern Arizona University. Archived from the original on 2006-12-31.

External links

"Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument". National Park Service.
"Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument". Bureau of Land Management.
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-78, "Grand Gulch Mine, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ", 52 photos, 11 color transparencies, 8 measured drawings, 56 data pages, 4 photo caption pages

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Geology	Agave phillipsiana Apollo Temple Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica Esplanade Sandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument Grand Canyon Supergroup Chuar Group Nankoweap Formation Sixtymile Formation Unkar Group Bass Formation Shinumo Quartzite Grand Staircase Freya Castle Hakatai Shale Hermit Formation Hyaloclastite Dam Isis Temple Kanab Plateau Newton Butte Ochoa Point Prospect Dam Redwall Limestone Tanner Graben Temple Butte Tonto Group Bright Angel Shale Toroweap Fault Uinkaret volcanic field Vasey's Paradise Venus Temple Vishnu Temple Vulcan's Throne
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People	Harvey Butchart Colin Fletcher Kenton Grua John Hance
Tribes	Havasupai Hualapai
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Protected areas of Arizona

Federal

National Parks	Grand Canyon Petrified Forest Saguaro
National Historical Parks, Historic Sites and Memorials	Tumacácori NHP Fort Bowie NHS Hubbell Trading Post NHS Coronado NMem
National Monuments	National Park Service Canyon de Chelly Casa Grande Ruins Chiricahua Hohokam Pima Montezuma Castle Navajo Organ Pipe Cactus Pipe Spring Sunset Crater Tonto Tuzigoot Walnut Canyon Wupatki Bureau of Land Management Agua Fria Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon–Parashant Ironwood Forest Sonoran Desert Vermilion Cliffs
National Conservation Areas	Gila Box Riparian Las Cienegas San Pedro Riparian
National Recreation Areas	Glen Canyon Lake Mead
National Trails	Arizona National Scenic Trail Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Old Spanish National Historic Trail
National Forests	Apache–Sitgreaves Coconino Elden Pueblo Honanki Heritage Site Palatki Heritage Site V Bar V Heritage Site Coronado Kaibab Prescott Tonto
National Wildlife Refuges	Bill Williams River Buenos Aires Cabeza Prieta Cibola Havasu Imperial Kofa Leslie Canyon San Bernardino
Wilderness Areas	See List of Arizona Wilderness Areas
Wild and Scenic Rivers	Fossil Creek Verde River

Nature parks	Papago Park Phoenix Mountains Preserve South Mountain Park

Other

National Natural Landmarks	See List of National Natural Landmarks in Arizona
National Historic Landmarks	See List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona
Historic Places	See National Register of Historic Places listings in Arizona

Arizona State Parks

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Bureau of Land Management	Agua Fria Avi Kwa Ame Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon Basin and Range Bears Ears Berryessa Snow Mountain Browns Canyon California Coastal Canyons of the Ancients Carrizo Plain Cascade–Siskiyou Chuckwalla Craters of the Moon Fort Ord Gold Butte Grand Canyon–Parashant Grand Staircase–Escalante Ironwood Forest Jurassic Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Mojave Trails Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks Pompeys Pillar Prehistoric Trackways Río Grande del Norte San Juan Islands Sand to Snow Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains Sonoran Desert Upper Missouri River Breaks Vermilion Cliffs
Other (FWS, DOE, AFRH, NOAA, USAF, Army)	Aleutian Islands World War II Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School Castner Range Hanford Reach Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Marianas Trench Marine Military Working Dog Teams Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Pacific Islands Heritage Marine Papahānaumokuākea Marine President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home Rose Atoll Marine Tule Lake
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