Within Utah, components of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) involve approximately 4,204,700 million acres, which is approximately 18 percent of all BLM-managed public lands in Utah.

The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM), which was created by presidential proclamation in 1996, is the first National Monument to be managed by BLM, and the largest at 1,870,800 acres. 

Utah BLM manages one entire wilderness, Cedar Mountain (100,000 acres), and portions of three wildernesses – Paria-Vermillion Cliffs (20,000 acres) and Beaver Dam Mountains (2,600 acres) that border Arizona, and Black Ridge Canyons ( 5,100 acres) that borders Colorado.

Utah BLM manages 3.2 million acres (96 units) of wilderness study areas (WSAs), instant study areas (ISAs), or ISA complexes, approximately 880,000 acres of which are within GSENM.

Utah BLM also manages 569 miles of National Historic Trails including 132 miles of Pony Express Trail, 111 miles of the California Trail, and 326 miles of the Old Spanish Trail.

In a crowded West, NLCS lands are special. They offer havens of solitude and a reminder of the West as it originally was. The BLM is proud to be stewards of these unique places.