Before Word Gets Out, Visit Nevada's Newest National Park Service Site
By Christy Articola|Published September 11, 2023
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Christy Articola has lived in Colorado since 2013 and considers herself a Centennial State enthusiast and expert through and through. She's based in Denver metro, but over the past decade, she has traveled to every corner, river, village, park, town, and city in the state and continues to explore it deeper and further whenever she can. Christy simply can't get enough of Colorado, and loves sharing all her adventures with you through Only In Your State! She graduated with a degree in journalism from Fordham University and is thrilled to be working as a full time travel writer for this and other sites - she finally found her perfect niche - and is so grateful for that.
Do you like national parks? Who doesn’t, right? Well, you might be excited to learn that there’s a brand new National Parks Service site in our beautiful state. Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, also known as Spirit Mountain, is a 506,000-acre site in the Mojave Desert. It was established as a national monument under the authority of the Antiquities Act by President Joe Biden on March 21, 2023. It’s beautiful, historic, and unique, and you’re going to love everything about Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada. Read on to learn more.
The Spirit Mountain Wilderness, now known as Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, is exceptionally beautiful.
It's also important to many other tribal groups including the Cocopah, Halchidhoma, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Kumeyaay, Maricopa, Pai Pai, Quechan, Yavapai, and Zuni Tribes.
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In fact, this land is central to the creation story of many tribes.
The fact that this land has now been designated a national monument means that roads, flood control, utilities, wildlife water catchments, and other features can be maintained and upgraded through the National Park Service moving forward.
The designation will keep it safe from future industrial development and will help to protect this unique land, habitat, and cultural resource for generations.
Avi Kwa Ame National Monument is in southern Clark County, not far from Nevada's biggest population centers. Tourists will enjoy getting away from the city to explore and enjoy its immense beauty.
Significant habitat of the Joshua Tree is in the western portion of the property.
Because of the indigenous influence on the area, the National Park Service will work with these groups to manage the land. An advisory committee with a majority of members belonging to Tribal Nations will work together in co-stewardship of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.
This relationship will be similar to the co-stewardship between the NPS and Tribal Nations over Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
Avi Kwa Ame is a unique national monument that is important to so many people already and which is sure to become important to many more moving forward.
Check it out as soon as you are able. You're sure to fall in love with this very special, beautiful, and spiritual place.
This new National Park Service property is amazing. You will be blown away by its beauty and you will quickly be able to both see and feel why the native people of the west believe that it is sacred. Plan a visit to this land soon! You’ll want to come back time and time again to Avi Kwa Ame to see more of it and to go deeper into the exploration of its immense beauty.
