While most national monuments are managed by the National Park Service, others are included in BLM’s National Conservation Lands, and still a few others are managed by the US Forest Service.
Here’s a complete listing of the 6 USFS National Monuments I’ve visited, and the 3 I still have left to visit:
Visited
- Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington
- Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
- Giant Sequoia National Monument, Sequoia National Forest, California
- Santa Rosa – San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, San Bernardino National Forest, California (co-managed with the Bureau of Land Management)
- Chimney Rock National Monument, San Juan National Forest, Colorado
- San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, Angeles & San Bernardino National Forests, California
- Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Monument, California
Left To Visit
- Admiralty Island National Monument, Tongass National Forest, Alaska
- Misty Fjords National Monument, Tongass National Forest, Alaska