Colorado's National Landscapes: Treasures of scenic, wide-open spaces

BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) highlights some of the West’s most spectacular public lands. In 2000, the NLCS was created to conserve, protect and restore nationally significant landscapes recognized for their cultural, ecological and scientific values. NLCS areas are congressionally or presidentially designated and include: national monuments, national conservation areas, national historic and scenic trails, wild and scenic rivers, wilderness areas, and wilderness study areas. Additionally, the NLCS includes other landscapes known as congressionally designated management areas. Colorado is home to 65 NLCS units encompassing over 1 million acres --- that is 1/8 of all the BLM land in the state.  Every NLCS category can be found here except for BLM wild and scenic rivers.

To view a map of the NLCS units in Colorado, click here.