Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is the 100th national monument in The United States of America. The monument is located in the Robledo Mountains, near Las Cruces in the southern region of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The monument's fossilized features are on 5,255 acres (2,127 ha) of Bureau of Land Management administered land in Doña Ana County.
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