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Three unique land areas make up the 1.4 million-acre Manti-La Sal National Forest in southeastern Utah.
The Manti Division, part of the Wasatch Plateau, features two national recreation trails, lakes and streams teeming with fish and distinctive geologic formations.
The 12,000-foot peaks in the La Sal Division's Moab District provide a dramatic visual and climactic contrast to the hot red-rock landscape of nearby Arches and Canyonlands national parks. The timbered slopes of the Monticello District offer a welcome contrast to the sand and heat of the surrounding desert. Pictographs, petroglyphs and stone dwellings provide clues to past civilizations.
The 45,000-acre Dark Canyon Wilderness, also in the Monticello District, has deep sandstone canyons interspersed with pinyon-juniper benchland, arches, springs and hanging gardens.
Manti-La Sal offers an outstanding wintertime experience, from the silent beauty of cross-country skiing in forests to the fast-paced excitement of snowmobiling.
Animals are abundant; the forest is home to Utah's largest elk herd.
A visitor center in Stuart Guard Station in Huntington Canyon is open Memorial Day to Labor Day.
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Dark Canyon Wilderness in Manti-La Sal National Forest.
Miner's Basin in Manti-La Sal National Forest.
A child casts a line in Manti-La Sal National Forest.
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